Margaret Reul , LCSW

Margaret Reul is a California-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of clinical experience supporting individuals and families through stress, loss, life transitions, and mental health concerns.

She frames therapy as a practical, collaborative process that can help whether someone is in crisis or seeking greater meaning and balance. With a background in both mental health and medical settings, she works with a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem concerns, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and challenges related to work and career. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, fertility and cancer-related concerns, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.

Reul earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her master’s degree in social work from California State University, Los Angeles. She holds a California LCSW license (LCSW 75171), which designates her as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her experience includes working with people living with serious mental illness and supporting first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She helps clients identify personal goals and uses practical, goal-oriented methods to create momentum toward relief and greater self-awareness. Her practice emphasizes solution-focused strategies and she commonly integrates client-centered, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, and motivational techniques. She offers evening and weekend sessions to better accommodate busy schedules.

Approaches for online therapy and how they help

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes practical steps and measurable goals to create change quickly. It helps people facing specific stressors, relationship struggles, or life transitions by focusing on strengths and what is already working to build forward momentum.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides structured strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to develop healthier coping patterns for everyday challenges.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and acceptance skills that can lessen reactivity to stress and support emotional regulation. It is useful for stress, grief, compassion fatigue, and for people wanting tools to manage intense emotions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process and happens collaboratively. Margaret will work with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques from these approaches to fit individual needs.

Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life, attend sessions from different locations, and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult.