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About Margo
Margo Arrowsmith is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina with 40 years of practice. She focuses on family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue, and often helps adult children and their parents improve how they relate to one another.
Her work is practical and direct. She adapts her approach to what each person needs and the situation they bring. When people call, she talks through concrete steps for setting boundaries, improving communication, and handling caregiving or end-of-life pressures.
Arrowsmith draws on long experience with adoption and foster care issues, adult adoptees and birth parents, and the ripple effects of childhood abuse. She says progress can happen at any age and has worked with clients in their eighties on long-standing trauma concerns.
She has written Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity, which combines professional advice with her own experience caring for a parent. That work informs how she helps caregivers balance family needs, work, and finances while avoiding unnecessary burnout.
Margo also offers focused work on eating-related difficulties, including bulimia and overeating, and on body image, codependency, guilt, and shame. She includes support for people juggling workplace stress and midlife transitions.
In addition to clinical practice, she brings experience as an interfaith minister who has used spiritual direction and dream work with interested clients. She emphasizes respectful conversation and practical tools rather than one fixed method.
How sessions work
How therapeutic approaches are used online and in sessions
Many of her methods are described as evidence-based techniques she adapts to the person’s needs. One common approach involves structured skills and strategies for managing symptoms of depression and trauma, focusing on practical ways to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Another frequent focus is behavioral work for eating-related issues, where specific patterns around food and behavior are discussed and replaced with alternative routines and coping steps.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust methods as progress is made and as life circumstances change.
The biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm the available online session types before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so work or caregiving breaks are easier to manage. Licensed professionals and therapists typically balance practical needs with clinical goals to make sessions useful and applicable to home life.
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Experience
40+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family concerns are addressed?
She focuses on improving relationships between adult children and their parents, caregiving strain, boundary setting, and communication problems.
How does she approach trauma or abuse work?
She draws on many years of experience and works at a pace the client can tolerate, including long-term work for childhood abuse and post-traumatic stress.
What background does she bring to this work?
She has practiced social work for 40 years and is the author of a book about caring for aging parents that combines professional advice with personal experience.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LCSW licensed in North Carolina and practices from that state.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are used?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription 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.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
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