Margaret Wilde
Practical, trauma-aware counselling for daily life
About Margaret
Margaret Wilde is a counsellor who blends several therapeutic approaches to meet each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people make manageable changes in day-to-day life. Before qualifying as a therapeutic counsellor, Margaret worked for fifteen years in the helping professions in mental health and learning disability.
She has eight years of counselling experience and has concentrated much of her work on trauma recovery.
Background and approach
Margaret takes a pluralistic approach, which means she combines techniques from different therapies rather than using a single method. Sessions may include talking through patterns, practical strategies to manage thoughts and feelings, and mindfulness exercises when helpful. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space for people to talk about emotions, relationships, belief patterns and their origins.
The work aims to help people see things from new angles and understand how past experiences shape current reactions. Margaret encourages clients to lead the pace and direction of therapy. Some people prefer open exploration of their past, others want practical skills and structure.
Together they decide which path best supports goals like better self-esteem, managing anxiety, coping with grief or recovering from trauma. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship and parenting concerns, ADHD and workplace issues, among others. Margaret helps people identify helpful patterns and build a kinder relationship with themselves.
What Margaret works with
How Margaret works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use online with a counsellor
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and aims to build safer ways of relating to yourself and others. This can be helpful for abandonment, attachment issues and relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margaret will discuss options with each person and tailor sessions to their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can include exploratory conversation, practical exercises or mindfulness practices depending on what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules and bandwidth permit. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower data use. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit regular support around work, caring responsibilities or busy days. These formats help make consistent therapy more possible for different routines and situations.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
