Margo Arrowsmith , LCSW

Margo Arrowsmith brings 40 years of clinical work and ongoing training to families and individuals confronting trauma, grief, caregiving challenges, eating-related issues, and other life transitions. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) she combines professional techniques with practical experience to tailor care to each client and circumstance. Her practice has included focused work helping adult children and their parents build more constructive, respectful relationships while preserving boundaries and real-life responsibilities.

She is the author of Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity, a book that blends professional guidance with personal experience from caring for her own parents; more information is available at keepyourparentshome.com. That book has already proved helpful to caregivers, and a professional writer who cared for his late wife is assisting in a revision to include couples perspectives.

Margo also works with creative barriers that interfere with writing, painting, and other artistic pursuits, and she has developed a structured approach for addressing bulimia and overeating. Her trauma work includes decades of experience helping survivors of childhood abuse, demonstrating that healing can occur at any age. She supports adult adoptees and birth parents through reunion and reconciliation issues, and as an Interfaith Minister trained in spiritual direction and dream work she helps clients explore spiritual aspects of healing.

After four decades of clinical practice she notes that active alcoholics and addicts have been the most difficult to treat in her work, while people with long-term sobriety have benefited from her support. Margo is not currently accepting new clients.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Margo Arrowsmith uses focused, evidence-informed approaches to address family conflict, trauma, and eating-related concerns. Trauma-focused work centers on helping people process and reduce the impact of past abuse or painful memories so they can function more comfortably in daily life; this approach is often used with survivors of childhood abuse and post-traumatic stress. Family-systems work helps adult children and parents improve communication, set healthy boundaries, and rebuild respectful relationships while balancing caregiving roles. Specialized interventions for bulimia and overeating combine structured strategies to change patterns around food and cope with shame and triggers.

Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Margo draws on her decades of experience and on client goals, needs, and preferences to determine which approaches will be most helpful, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit care into busy lives - sessions can occur by video call, by phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging. These options make regular contact easier for caregivers, people managing work and family responsibilities, and clients who prefer to meet from home or another convenient location, while allowing licensed professionals and therapists to provide consistent, ongoing support.