Margaret "Maggie" Nash, LCSW

Margaret "Maggie" Nash is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 24 years of independent practice experience. She blends a warm, straightforward style with a sense of humor to help people face painful problems and make practical changes. Maggie writes and does TV interviews, and she keeps a hopeful, down-to-earth approach in sessions.

Her work focuses on relationship concerns and problems people have with themselves. Common topics include stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and sexual assault and abuse. She also addresses intimacy questions, jealousy, eating and sleeping challenges, parenting struggles, and career or life-change stress.

Maggie uses several therapy approaches to match the person in front of her. She draws from client-centered work to listen and build trust, from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, and from emotionally-focused ideas to focus on feelings in close relationships. She also brings tools from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit the problem.

She treats issues like bipolar disorder, ADHD, personality disorder concerns, self-harm, and compassion fatigue with the same direct care and practical problem solving. Sessions often include humor when it helps the healing process and supports grieving, recovery, or new coping skills.

People who come to Maggie usually want clearer choices and steadier emotional responses. She describes herself as compassionate and persistent, and she works with clients to set concrete goals and a path forward.

How Maggie's approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy is about listening closely and following what matters most to the person. Online work can still prioritize that close listening and use questions to clarify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns in thinking and behavior and testing new responses; it often uses homework and simple exercises that are easy to share and track between sessions. Emotionally-focused ideas help people notice and name feelings in relationships and practice new ways of responding to each other, which can be discussed and rehearsed in session.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaboration helps decide whether to emphasize listening, skills training, or emotion-focused work as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use written exercises or screen-sharing for worksheets. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and communication to suit a person’s life and goals, helping therapy fit better with everyday demands.