Margaret Sue Echols, LPC
Experienced Texas LPC focused on parenting and relationships
Book with Margaret- Years in practice
- 34
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Margaret
Margaret Sue Echols is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who focuses on parenting concerns alongside a wide range of personal and relationship issues. She draws on 34 years in the mental health field and nearly three decades in independent practice to help adults and couples who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, mood shifts, and life changes.
Her style is straightforward and conversational. Sessions use talk therapy and practical tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises.
Background and approach
She also brings emotionally-focused methods and Jungian ideas when they fit a person’s needs. The goal is to find approaches that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Therapy can include short-term strategies and longer work depending on the issue.
Margaret combines skillful listening with exercises you can try between sessions. She pays attention to how family dynamics, identity, and caregiving roles shape reactions and choices. She describes her work as integrative, balancing thoughts, emotions, and meaning.
Clients can expect a calm, empathetic presence and an emphasis on what will bring more ease in everyday life. Many people seek her help for parenting strain, relationship friction, sleep problems, substance concerns, and career stress. Margaret offers sessions for adults and couples and provides counseling, psychotherapy, and life coaching options.
Her approach respects cultural and spiritual differences and aims to match tools to each person’s values and goals.
What Margaret works with
Everything Margaret lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Margaret helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Margaret lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters most to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by clarifying priorities and building committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replaces them with more helpful options. It is useful for mood problems, sleep issues, stress, and many daily struggles. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and patterns in close relationships to improve connection and reduce conflict, which can be helpful for couples and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying concrete skills, checking how they land, and shifting course when something isn’t helping. Clients are invited to be active partners in choosing what to focus on and which tools to use.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging are good for shorter updates, written reflection, or when scheduling brief support during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules.
Questions people ask about Margaret
What concerns does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is conversational and practical. She combines listening with exercises from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and emotionally focused techniques to address current problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has 34 years in the mental health field and has worked in independent practice for about 29 years.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from other countries.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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