Margie Harper, LPC

Margie Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She uses a straightforward, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supportive.

Margie draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. She combines that with client-centered listening to create a space where clients can speak honestly about what’s hard. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on real problems that matter day to day.

She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. That work often focuses on skills for calming, tolerating distress, and improving emotional regulation. Narrative and solution-focused ideas appear when shifting perspectives and building practical steps matter most.

Across eight years of practice, Margie has supported people facing grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, compassion fatigue, and identity-related stress for LGBT clients. She helps with issues like infidelity, communication problems, and life transitions that leave people feeling stuck or isolated.

In sessions Margie keeps language simple and concrete. She listens for what the client wants to change, then helps build small, achievable plans. The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and a more manageable day-to-day life.

How CBT and Skills Work Online

Margie combines cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered listening and some dialectical behavior therapy skills. Cognitive behavioral work helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to change mood and reactions. Client-centered work focuses on attentive listening and building a trusting conversation so people can speak honestly about what they’re facing.

Dialectical behavior skills are used when emotions run high; this includes short, practical tools for managing distress, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving communication. Together these approaches help with anxiety, depression, relationship tension, and coping with life transitions by teaching concrete steps people can use between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past, then try techniques that fit the person’s needs. Work can shift over time as progress and priorities change to keep the focus on what will help most.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to practice skills between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into daily life.