- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Licensed in
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Maggie
Maggie Lemley is a licensed professional counselor who draws on 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, relationships, and parenting concerns. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Maggie emphasizes clear, practical steps to reduce emotional pain and improve day-to-day functioning.
Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental. Maggie listens closely, helps clients track patterns, and offers tools to manage difficult feelings. She focuses on awareness and skill building so relief lasts longer than a single venting session.
Background and approach
Maggie has worked across community mental health settings and in roles such as therapist, case manager, and assessment clinician. She has experience supporting people with severe and persistent mental illness and has provided services to military service members and their families in recent years. She keeps learning through ongoing trainings and conferences to refine her approach.
That continuing education informs how she supports clients with trauma, relationship challenges, parenting strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. In sessions clients can expect practical strategies alongside emotional processing. Maggie aims to help people identify what matters most, develop coping skills, and make realistic changes that fit their lives.
What Maggie works with
Everything Maggie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Maggie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Many of the techniques Maggie uses focus on teaching concrete skills and helping people process strong emotions. Cognitive behavioral approaches help identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with clearer, more useful thinking; this is often used for anxiety, depression, and eating or sleeping problems. Dialectical behavior style work emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication skills to manage intense feelings and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to understand goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods and adjust them over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be a quicker option when bandwidth is an issue, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Maggie
What kinds of concerns does Maggie address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, bipolar, and career or life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is direct and nonjudgmental, blending emotional processing with practical tools to manage symptoms and change daily habits.
What background does she bring to sessions?
She has 15 years of experience in mental health work, including community mental health roles, case management, and assessment work with diverse client needs.
Which credentials and region apply to her practice?
She holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices from Kentucky, with licensure noted for Tennessee and Kentucky.
In what languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is available to work with international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match clients' needs.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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