Margaret Packard-Motter , MD, LCSW-C, LCSW

Margaret Packard-Motter is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of professional experience, practicing across Pennsylvania and Maryland. She holds an MD, along with LCSW-C and LCSW credentials - the latter indicating her training and licensure as a clinical social worker. Throughout a long career she has supported individuals facing depression, motivation and confidence struggles, self-esteem concerns, relationship and workplace challenges, and the stress that comes with life transitions.

Her work also includes specialized support for aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, grief and loss, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Combining evidence-based therapeutic techniques with practical coaching, she helps clients build coping skills, address feelings of emptiness or isolation, and explore life purpose and forgiveness when relevant. Margaret’s approach emphasizes collaboration and drawing on each person’s strengths to navigate career questions, seasonal mood changes, or compassion fatigue. She aims to help clients identify resources and strategies to manage stress and anxiety while working through the emotional impacts of caregiving, bereavement, and major life changes.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Margaret Packard-Motter uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the particular issues a person brings to therapy. One focus is grief and bereavement support, offering structured guidance to process loss and integrate changes into daily life in ways that help with mourning and adjustment. Another emphasis is skills-based work for stress, anxiety, and caregiver strain, teaching practical coping strategies, problem-solving methods, and ways to manage workload and emotional overwhelm. These approaches are grounded in methods shown to help people facing depression, relationship difficulties, workplace stress, and life transitions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Margaret works together with each person to identify goals, preferences, and the methods that fit best, adjusting techniques as needs evolve so treatment stays aligned with what the client hopes to achieve.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain consistent contact during periods of caregiving or life transition. Licensed professionals and therapists adapt these formats to deliver focused, accessible care that supports ongoing progress.