Margaret Gibson Ellison, LPC

Margaret Gibson Ellison is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience. She works with adults and helps people cope with anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship problems, and life changes. Her style is collaborative and client-centered, and she focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.

Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings, private practice, and virtual care. She has maintained a private practice in Conyers, Georgia for 14 years. That range of settings gives her familiarity with different treatment needs and everyday challenges people bring to therapy.

Margaret favors an approach that starts with listening. She helps clients set clear goals and builds a plan together. Sessions often include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts, motivational techniques to support change, and mindfulness exercises to reduce stress.

She also draws on narrative and client-centered methods to help people make sense of their experiences and strengthen personal resources. Margaret pays attention to relationships, attachment and communication patterns that commonly affect mental health and well-being.

Her work addresses a wide set of concerns including grief, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. She aims to tailor work to each person’s life and values, avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions.

People who choose her often want respectful collaboration, practical tools, and steady support while they work toward clearer coping, healthier routines, and improved relationships.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Margaret integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy into online work. CBT involves identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and learning new coping skills to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and improve sleep and focus.

She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. Together with each client she reviews goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That helps decide whether to focus on CBT strategies, mindfulness exercises, motivational interviewing, or a blend of methods tailored to the person.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone calls can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules, travel, or family demands.