Margaret Kei
Compassionate LCSW guiding practical growth
LCSW Virginia
- Experience
- 11 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Margaret
Margaret Kei is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Virginia who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life challenges.
Background and approach
She brings 11 years of clinical experience and works with individuals and families facing grief, relationship and family difficulties, ADHD-related concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and adjustment to life transitions. Her practice also attends to issues like adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, impulse control, isolation, and mood or panic-related concerns.
Her therapeutic style is warm and supportive, drawing from client-centered principles alongside cognitive behavioral and solution-focused tools to help clients identify patterns, build coping skills, and set achievable goals. Trauma-focused techniques are used when addressing histories of abuse or post-traumatic stress, with an emphasis on practical strategies that can be applied between sessions.
Margaret encourages clients to view seeking help as a sign of strength and collaborates to tailor treatment to each person’s needs and pace.
Online Approaches for Practical Change and Healing
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more balanced thinking and effective coping strategies; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and mood challenges. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client’s own goals, creating a collaborative space where the person’s priorities guide the work. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing traumatic experiences and teaching skills to reduce trauma-related symptoms and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Margaret works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She integrates techniques as appropriate, exploring what helps the individual feel safer, more capable, and better able to manage symptoms over time.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging increases flexibility for scheduling and lets people access care in ways that fit their routines. These options can make it easier to maintain continuity of care, practice skills between sessions, and stay connected when life circumstances change.
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Experience
11+ years
Licensed
Virginia
Languages
English