Margo Arrowsmith, LCSW

Margo Arrowsmith, LCSW, helps people facing family conflict, grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and trauma and abuse. She writes plainly and draws on 40 years of practice to guide practical change. Margo aims to make difficult conversations feel more manageable and to help clients set and keep useful boundaries.

Her approach adapts to each person's needs. She has worked with adult children and their parents to build more respectful relationships. She also helps people facing adoption and foster care questions, body image and eating concerns, codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, and workplace stress.

Margo wrote Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life to share hands-on advice from professional work and personal experience. That background informs her support for those caring for elders and for people navigating hospice and end-of-life issues.

She has developed a system for addressing bulimia and overeating, and she works with adult adoptees and birth parents on reunions and reunification questions when wanted. She also supports people who want to reconnect with creative activities like writing or painting that life circumstances have interrupted.

As an interfaith minister trained in spiritual direction and dream work, she helps clients bring spiritual resources into therapy when that is important to them. Margo notes that she has helped people resolve childhood abuse at many ages, and she will work with clients to find approaches that fit their situation.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Margo describes her work as adaptable to each person's needs and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to do that. For example, trauma-focused work helps people process painful memories and reduce how much those memories interrupt daily life. Techniques for grief and loss support people in naming their feelings and finding steady routines and meaning after a loss.

She also offers focused help for eating and food-related issues, using structured steps to change eating patterns and to address the feelings that drive them. Each approach is explained simply so clients know what to expect and can choose what feels most helpful.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust as you go. That collaboration helps match practical strategies to your needs and preferences.

Session-format details are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. Many people find it helps maintain continuity of care while they balance work, caregiving, and everyday life.