About Marguerite
Marguerite Elkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Tennessee. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Her approach aims to help people regain balance and feel more capable in daily life.
She uses practical, evidence-based tools to help people manage symptoms and cope with change. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and steps that can be tried between appointments.
Background and approach
Marguerite blends cognitive and mindfulness techniques with strategies drawn from trauma-focused and solution-focused work. Marguerite brings 15 years of clinical experience to her practice. She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, panic, and complex grief.
She also addresses issues like chronic illness and pain, body image, attachment and abandonment concerns, and challenges common to veterans and first responders. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new ways of reacting, and track progress.
Therapy conversations are aimed at understanding patterns and trying small changes that add up. Services are offered through a range of online formats. Sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what suits a client’s routine and comfort.
The practice works with adults seeking support for mood, trauma, and life transitions.
Approaches used online and how they help
Marguerite commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to address mood and anxiety concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus.She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy elements when emotion regulation and crisis coping are priorities. DBT skills focus on managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in stressful moments. Together these approaches are used to tailor work to a person’s needs rather than applying one fixed method.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions match their preferences and real-life demands.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face-to-face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports frequent, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using CBT, mindfulness, and DBT skills in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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