Margaret Elkins, LPCC
Kentucky · 7 years in practice
Margaret Elkins is a licensed professional clinical counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and trauma.
License and registration
- LPCC, Kentucky
- 268468 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1902540545 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- 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 Elkins is a licensed professional clinical counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and trauma. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical, listening first and then working with each person to set small, achievable goals. Many people come for help with grief, relationship strain, body image, or feeling stuck in midlife transitions.
She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotions feel overwhelming and someone wants concrete ways to cope in the moment. She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, as one part of trauma work when appropriate. Margaret earned a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Eastern Kentucky University.
She has been a licensed clinician for seven years and has worked in mental health settings for a total of fifteen years. That background includes supporting people facing severe mental illness as well as a range of mood and behavior concerns. In sessions she aims to be direct but kind, helping people break problems into doable steps.
She often combines skill teaching with talk-based work, tailoring techniques to what feels useful for each person. Progress is tracked in small ways so clients notice change. Her practice serves people in Kentucky and sessions are conducted in English.
She supports a wide range of concerns including attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, career questions, and issues around forgiveness and guilt.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Margaret lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Margaret names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
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Online support
Approaches for online trauma and mood work
Margaret uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thought patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. CBT focuses on clear steps people can practice between sessions to reduce worry and improve daily routines and behavior.She also draws on EMDR to address traumatic memories when that approach fits a person's needs. EMDR involves guided attention and processing aimed at reducing the emotional intensity of painful memories, and it can be integrated with other techniques for broader trauma work.
Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, comfort with different techniques, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she tailors a plan that mixes skill work, coping strategies, and processing as appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit schedules and daily life. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Text and chat are useful for short updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, eating and body image concerns, anger, and career issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are practical and collaborative, using skill teaching and talk therapy to set small goals and measure progress over time.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years as a licensed clinician and a total of fifteen years working in mental health settings.
What credentials and location are listed for her?
She holds the credential LPCC and practices in Kentucky as a KY LPCC.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time and works with people located in Kentucky.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How are sessions paid for and started?
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