Margo Arrowsmith

Margo Arrowsmith is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience. She helps people facing grief, family stress, trauma and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with depression, eating issues, and concerns related to adoption and foster care.

Her approach is practical and flexible. She adapts what happens in sessions to each person's situation and needs. Margo often focuses on boundaries, clearer communication, and restoring everyday functioning. She also brings experience with end-of-life situations and hospice and end-of-life counseling when those concerns arise.

She has written a book called Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life that mixes practical steps with personal experience about caring for aging parents. That work grew from many years helping adult children and parents find more constructive ways to relate. Margo also collaborates with others to expand resources for caregivers and couples facing long-term illness.

Margo works with adults who are trying to move past old wounds, including those who experienced childhood abuse. She has a system for addressing bulimia and overeating and helps adult adoptees and birth parents with reunion and separation issues when they choose to pursue that.

She brings additional perspective as an interfaith minister who has practiced spiritual direction and dream work, and she often helps people draw on spiritual meaning alongside practical coping steps. Margo notes she has not had success with active alcoholism or active addiction, though she supports people who have maintained long-term sobriety to rebuild their lives.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are central to her practice, and she matches tools to the problem at hand. One common direction is trauma-focused care that helps people process past hurt in manageable steps while rebuilding daily routines and safety. This work can assist with post-traumatic stress, childhood abuse recovery, and long-standing emotional pain.

She also uses approaches aimed at eating and behavior patterns, including a structured method she developed for bulimia and overeating. These methods focus on identifying triggers, changing harmful patterns, and building healthier routines. For family and caregiving conflicts she applies communication and boundary-focused strategies that teach clearer ways to ask for needs and set limits.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together with the therapist. She will review your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust over time based on what helps. The plan is collaborative and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.

The biography does not list which online session types are offered, so confirm the available formats before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins, fewer travel demands, and easier scheduling around caregiving or work. It also lets people continue care when they are balancing medical or hospice responsibilities, while still focusing on grief, family dynamics, and stress management.