Margaret Yurkunas, LPC

Margaret Yurkunas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing midlife transition and related stresses. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem struggles, and challenges at work or home. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent to the person sitting in the room.

Margaret uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes empathy and genuine listening. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can name their difficulties and test new ways of coping. Her background includes five years of professional experience as an LPC and practice with people dealing with complex life changes and caregiver strain.

In sessions she prefers to follow each person’s lead, helping them find answers that fit their life. She also includes hypnotherapy when appropriate, using focused attention to access thoughts and feelings that may be harder to reach in ordinary conversation. The goal is clearer self-understanding and stronger daily coping skills.

Margaret often works with issues connected to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. She supports people managing ADHD, eating concerns, and the fallout of infidelity or separation. Work together will usually include simple, practical steps to try between sessions.

People who choose her report a practical, steady approach that centers their priorities. To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

Client-centered care and focused techniques online

Margaret uses client-centered therapy and hypnotherapy as part of her practice. Client-centered therapy centers on empathetic listening and following the person’s lead to help them find clearer direction and stronger coping skills. Hypnotherapy involves guided focus and relaxation to bring attention to thoughts and feelings that might be hard to reach in regular talk, and can support work on trauma, self-esteem, or habit change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to fit what they want to achieve. Together they decide whether to emphasize open-ended conversation, try focused hypnotherapy, or combine techniques over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as having appointments without travel or scheduling around work and caregiving duties. It can also allow shorter check-ins when useful, and options that reduce the need to be on camera. Because specific session formats were not listed in the biography, confirm the available online options before booking so you know what to expect.