- 40 years experience
- Family and grief
- Creative recovery
About Margo
Margo Arrowsmith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 40 years of experience. She helps people facing family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. Her work often touches on adoption and foster care, body image struggles, codependency, and workplace issues.
She adapts her methods to fit each person's needs. She has written a book called Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity that combines practical advice and personal experience caring for aging parents. That project grew from long experience supporting adult children and their parents to find clearer boundaries and more respectful relationships.
Her practice includes work with people who want to reconnect with creative pursuits such as writing or painting when life events have blocked those activities. She also developed a system to address bulimia and overeating and has long experience supporting adults who experienced childhood abuse, including older clients seeking resolution later in life.
Arrowsmith has worked with adoptees and birth parents around reunion questions and related emotions. She trained as an interfaith minister and in spiritual direction and dream work, and she uses those interests to help clients explore spiritual concerns when that is meaningful to them.
She notes that helping people maintain long-term sobriety has gone well when clients are already sober, and that active addiction has been a limitation in her own practice. People interested in working with her are encouraged to consider her focus on family dynamics, grief, trauma, and creative recovery when deciding whether to reach out.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques can include practical, problem-focused work and approaches that help process trauma and grief. Problem-focused methods target specific behaviors and daily routines, helping people change patterns that cause stress at home or work. Trauma-focused approaches help people process painful memories and reduce the ways those memories affect everyday functioning.Arrowsmith favors adapting methods to each person's situation rather than using a single fixed model. She will work together with a client to decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic for work and wellbeing concerns.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the therapist's current online offerings before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins can work during a lunch break, phone conversations can be used when bandwidth is limited, and remote meetings reduce travel time. Online work also supports continuity when schedules or caregiving responsibilities change, while allowing therapists and clients to focus on concrete goals like boundary setting, grief tasks, or workplace stress management.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
40+ years
Credentials
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She focuses on family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, body image, eating issues, codependency, and workplace problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and adaptable. She adjusts methods to each person and emphasizes boundaries, respect, and workable steps in daily life.
What is her professional background?
She has 40 years of clinical experience and has written a book about caring for aging parents that mixes professional guidance with personal experience.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is an LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker, and practices in North Carolina.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options with the service before booking.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.