Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I have 4 decades of experience and training in a variety of methods. I do what is needed depending on the client and the specific circumstances.
1. Currently I have worked helping adult children and their parents establish more constructive and respectful relationships.
Author of ¨Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity”. It is 1/2 professional advice on how to do it and 1/2 personal experience from when I kept mine at home. I used my professional experience and knowledge combined with the mistakes and knowing what works I learned from doing this myself. keepyourparentshome.com
Last year I met a man whose wife died after 4 years of his being her nurse. I gave him my book and he said he wished he’d had it earlier because it would have been so helpful to him and his wife in those four years. He is a professional writer and is helping me rewrite the book to include couples.
I like working with is families who are dealing with these issues. I have shown that I can work with an open mind, knowing that there are a variety of needs and helping families find the best with respect for all, especially important are boundaries, but also helping people avoid the current hype. I have had many successes at this.
2. As a writer I have a special affinity and ability working with people whose life circumstances and issues have hindered their abilities to create writing, painting and a variety of creative activities.
3. I have developed a system for working with bulimia and overeating.
4. I am very good with people who have experienced childhood abuse, my current patient is an 85 year old woman who came to me 3 years ago to resolve her childhood abuse. I know that this work can be done at any age.
5. I have expertise with adult adoptees and birth parents helping them resolve those issues including reunions, if wanted
6. As an Interfaith Minister who has trained in spirirtual direction and dream work, I help people understand their spiritual lives and how to use this to improve their issues.
After 4 decades of experience and additional training the only people I have not been successful with are active alcoholics and addicts. I have worked well with people who have been sober for several decades in putting their lives where they want to be.
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Margo Arrowsmith brings forty years of clinical experience and a wide range of training to her work, tailoring methods to each client and their particular circumstances. She adapts her approach to what a person or family needs, drawing on varied techniques accumulated over four decades in practice.
She has worked extensively with adult children and their parents to create more constructive and respectful relationships, emphasizing clear boundaries and practical solutions. She is the author of “Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity,” a book that combines professional guidance with personal experience from caring for her own parents, and she maintains a website at keepyourparentshome.com. After meeting a man whose wife died following four years during which he served as her caregiver, he told her the book would have helped him and his wife during that time. He is now assisting her in revising the book to include material for couples.
Margo enjoys working with families navigating caregiving, generational conflict, and the practical tensions that arise in close relationships. She approaches each case with an open mind, helping families find respectful solutions while guarding boundaries and avoiding current fads, and she reports many successful outcomes in this area.
As a writer herself, she has a particular affinity for helping people whose life circumstances have impeded creative expression – writing, painting, and other artistic pursuits. She has also developed a system for treating bulimia and overeating.
She has deep experience with survivors of childhood abuse; one of her current patients is an 85-year-old woman who began therapy with her three years ago to work through childhood trauma, illustrating Margo’s belief that this work can be effective at any age. She also works with adult adoptees and birth parents to address reunion dynamics and other adoption-related issues when reunions are desired.
In addition to her clinical training, Margo is an Interfaith Minister who trained in spiritual direction and dream work, and she helps clients explore their spiritual lives as one resource for addressing life challenges.
She is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina (NC LCSW C001796) and, after four decades of practice and additional training, notes that the only population with whom she has not been successful are people actively using alcohol or other addictive substances. She does, however, work effectively with people who have been sober for many years in helping them shape the lives they want.
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