Margaret Wilde, BACP

Margaret Wilde is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with eight years of counselling experience. She works with people experiencing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, and a range of other difficulties including ADHD and compassion fatigue.

Before qualifying as a therapeutic counsellor, she spent fifteen years working in mental health and learning disability services. That background shaped her practical approach to trauma recovery and supporting people through major life changes.

Margaret uses a pluralistic way of working. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic ideas and client-centred methods, and blends in mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when these fit the person’s goals. Sessions are organised around what the client says is most useful rather than one fixed method.

In conversation she helps people notice patterns in thoughts, emotions and behaviour. She offers time to talk through feelings, relationships and family of origin issues, and looks at how past experiences shape current reactions. Practical strategies and reflective work are mixed depending on what the client prefers.

Margaret aims to give clear feedback so clients can see different perspectives and understand how habitual responses affect daily life. The work often focuses on building self-awareness, improving self-esteem and finding more helpful patterns of coping. Clients are invited to make decisions about whether they want exploratory or more skills-based sessions.

To begin, she asks people to set goals and choose the style of work they want. This helps shape a steady, practical plan for moving forward rather than a one-size-fits-all programme.

How her approaches translate to online work