Therapist profile
Prof. Margaret Anzalone, LICSW, LCSW
Prof Margaret Anzalone LICSW LCSW - Family and Parenting
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- Client-centered therapy
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Mindfulness practice
About Margaret
Prof. Margaret Anzalone is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Maine with 31 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, parenting, addictions, and related concerns. She speaks English and accepts international clients.
Margaret draws on client-centered care alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches. Sessions are conversational and practical. She helps people notice what is happening now, make clearer choices, and try small, doable changes between meetings.
Her background combines clinical social work with pastoral counseling and spiritual direction. That mix informs how she listens for what matters in daily life and in caregiving roles. She also has experience addressing caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and the stresses that come with midlife and career change.
She works with issues that often appear together - grief, substance concerns, anger, sleep problems, and identity-related stress such as gender dysphoria or LGBT concerns. Her practice includes attention to intimacy-related problems and parenting strains. Margaret uses solution-focused steps when people want concrete next moves.
In sessions she may offer mindfulness practices alongside cognitive-behavioral tools to reduce panic, manage anxiety, and support mood regulation. Her style is steady and goal-oriented; she encourages small experiments and clear skill practice. People who juggle caregiving, work, and family responsibilities often seek her out for direct help with communication problems and codependency.
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How her approaches guide online work
Client-centered therapy places the person and their concerns at the center of each session. It focuses on listening, reflecting what matters, and helping people name goals they care about. This approach is useful for relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and identity concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to manage anxiety, panic, low mood, and sleep or eating problems. Sessions often include simple homework or experiments to try between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy adds attention training and grounding practices. Brief mindfulness exercises can help reduce reactivity, support emotional regulation, and make caregiving and daily routines easier to manage.
Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their needs, goals, and preferences. That planning happens together over the first few visits and can change as progress is made.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. They can also let people use audio-only or video when that fits their needs, but please verify which formats are offered prior to scheduling.
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Experience
31+ years
Listed in
Maine, Massachusetts
Languages
English
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What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and parenting strains, addictions, sleep and eating issues, and many related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would she work with relationship or family problems?
She uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to clarify communication problems, codependency, and family-related stress and to identify practical next steps.
What is her professional background?
She has 31 years of practice as a social worker with pastoral counseling and spiritual direction experience that inform her clinical work.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds MA LICSW and ME LCSW credentials and practices in Maine.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are used.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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