Margaret Dunn, LPC
Missouri · 15 years in practice
Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience helping people move past the things that hold them back.
License and registration
- LPC, Missouri
- 2008009343 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1417114349 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Margaret
Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience helping people move past the things that hold them back. She combines counseling and coaching skills to address persistent habits, emotional eating, stress, and low self-esteem. Margaret focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel less stuck.
She often starts by listening to what matters most to a person and then works step-by-step to uncover patterns that keep repeating.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through difficult feelings, identifying small behavior changes, and practicing new ways of responding to stress. She uses approaches that pay attention to thoughts, emotions, and underlying habits, including hypnotherapy when appropriate. Margaret pays special attention to issues like emotional eating, chronic illness, grief, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
She also helps with body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and post-traumatic stress. Her work is aimed at breaking cycles rather than blaming people for them. Her style is direct but compassionate.
She encourages clients to try manageable steps and to notice real changes over time. Margaret emphasizes courage, curiosity, and practical tools so clients can regain momentum in their lives. People who want structure and clear next steps tend to fit well with her approach.
She supports those ready to tackle habits, heal from painful experiences, and build more self-trust. Margaret welcomes conversations that start with a single step toward change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Margaret lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Margaret names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these approaches work online
Margaret uses hypnotherapy to access patterns below conscious awareness and help people interrupt automatic reactions. In short sessions she may guide focused imagery or relaxation to help someone notice and change habitual responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present; it supports work on anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what a person brings, creating space to be heard and to explore choices. Margaret treats finding the right approach as a shared task. She will discuss options and try methods together so the client and therapist can see what feels most helpful for the client's goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are practical for short check-ins, homework review, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options are meant to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, emotional eating, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping problems, anger, career shifts, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Margaret blends coaching with counseling in a direct and compassionate way. Sessions focus on practical steps, habit change, and processing emotions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of clinical and coaching experience combining counseling and life coaching skills.
What credentials and location are listed?
Margaret holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor and is based in Missouri.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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