Margo Arrowsmith

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.