- Years in practice
- 11
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Margaret
Margaret Brannigan is a counsellor with eleven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety and parenting concerns. She uses straightforward, person-focused care to help clients make small, useful changes. Margaret holds BACP registration which signals a professional standard of practice.
Her approach starts with listening. She believes the person in the room knows their life best and she supports them to unlock options and next steps. Sessions are practical and grounded, aimed at resolving immediate problems while building longer-term skills.
Background and approach
Margaret draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred principles to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours. She also uses Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing to help with motivation and staying present. These methods suit worries such as low mood, anxiety, addictive patterns and difficulties with sleep.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy difficulties, self-esteem problems, ADHD and coping with life changes. Parenting is a regular focus, with help for parents facing stress, communication problems and blended-family issues. Sessions can include practical problem solving, short-term goal setting and emotion regulation skills.
Margaret aims to be respectful and warm, offering a calm space to talk through sensitive topics. She helps people take steady steps forward at a pace that suits them.
What Margaret works with
Everything Margaret lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Margaret helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Margaret lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Margaret’s approaches work online
Margaret combines Client-Centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to support people remotely. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and creating a space where people can make their own choices. It helps when someone needs to feel understood and to explore options at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers clear techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours, which suits issues like anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Margaret treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients shape the direction and can mix techniques such as mindfulness or motivational interviewing if they are helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people sustain the work over time.
Questions people ask about Margaret
What concerns does Margaret commonly help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges and addictions, along with relationship and intimacy issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are person-centred and practical. Margaret listens first, then uses CBT, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to try different ways forward.
How long has she been practising?
Margaret has worked in counselling for 11 years and has experience with a wide range of emotional and behavioural concerns.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She works from the United Kingdom and is registered with the BACP.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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