Margaret Sue Echols, LPC
Texas · 34 years in practice
Margaret Sue Echols is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 34 years in mental health care.
License and registration
- LPC, Texas
- 13710 · expires October 2027
- NPI
- 1114935764 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 34
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Margaret
Margaret Sue Echols is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 34 years in mental health care. She works with adults on problems such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, and stress. She also supports concerns around parenting, intimacy, self-esteem, career shifts, and coping with life changes.
Her style is straightforward and conversational. Sessions use talk therapy along with tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping people notice emotions, name what matters, and take small steps toward change. She also brings Jungian ideas about meaning and deeper life patterns into the work. Margaret blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods.
That mix helps people understand feelings in relationships, clarify values, and practice new behaviors. She uses practical exercises, relaxation techniques, and reflective conversation to help people balance mind, body, and spirit.
She has spent most of her career in independent practice and has experience with a wide range of life challenges, including long-term caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family issues, and issues around identity and intimacy. Sessions may also address anger, sleeping problems, body image, and codependency. Margaret offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Margaret lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people tune into emotions in relationships and understand patterns that keep them stuck. Online EFT can support work on intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns, and intense emotional responses by using focused conversation and guided exercises.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. In online sessions ACT techniques lead to small, practical steps that fit into daily life and help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead. This approach can help people feel heard, build self-trust, and explore what matters most to them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access from different locations. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text messaging works well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain regular contact between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleeping problems, and career or life transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is conversational and practical. She mixes emotionally focused work with cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and reflective exploration.
What is her professional background?
She has 34 years of experience in mental health, including 29 years in independent practice and a long clinical career working with a wide range of adult concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and practices from that state.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
She works using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
How does billing and cost work?
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?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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