About Margaret
Margaret Lorenz is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD concerns, and life changes. She writes short-term and longer-term plans with each person and focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. Her style is warm and steady and she keeps the pace set by the person seeking help.
She brings 26 years of experience to sessions and draws on multiple ways of working to meet real needs.
Background and approach
People often come for help with relationships, parenting strains, grief, self-esteem, career challenges, or feelings of isolation. She also supports those facing workplace stress, compassion fatigue, and struggles around intimacy or commitment. Margaret uses client-centered techniques to follow the person’s lead and build on strengths.
She pairs that with cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and simple tools you can practice between meetings.
Conversations include skill practice, problem-solving, and checking what’s working. Her approach is collaborative - she helps people find what fits their life and priorities. Margaret works with adults and young adults on everyday struggles and transitions.
She accepts international clients for online work and offers multiple session formats to match different schedules and needs.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online sessions
Margaret uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on listening closely and shaping goals with the person’s priorities. It helps when someone wants to build on strengths and steer the direction of their work.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. CBT breaks problems into small parts and tests new ways of thinking and behaving, useful for anxiety, mood concerns, ADHD-related routines, and practical life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and she treats it as a shared decision. Together the therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s needs, pace, and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet without traveling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is an issue, and live chat or text-based messaging can serve as shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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