Margaret Brittingham, LPC-MHSP

About Me
I combine methods from talk therapy, body-centered methods, and coaching. Body-centered methods help us become more available to connection, more autonomous, and restore aliveness and presence and flow in ways that work deeper and along more non-linear paths than talking alone. Talking and understanding is also an important part of the process–especially for the desired changes to become more fully integrated into your whole being.
The feedback my clients have given me is that I feel safe and easy to talk to. You are the expert on your life: you have access to your memories, your thoughts, your beliefs and your sensations. I can help you identify the places where you get stuck and the traps you are falling into, the parts of yourself that are harder for you to inhabit and where unintegrated experiences are concealing your essence and fragmenting the flow of relationship with all of life.
My Passion
Experimentation is part of the process. In fact, developing intimacy with our perfectionism, with this illusion that there is some destination where everything will be perfect and stay perfect if we can only contort ourselves successfully enough, is a pathway to healing. We collaborate to sense, feel and conceive of the ways for you to get out of your own way, grow, deepen, and heal.
I love my work because it unifies my life in a way that asks me and allows me to stay in deep contact with myself, and with what matters most to me: the essential goodness and vulnerability and shared humanity in all of us; the wild aliveness that is everywhere, all the time; the mystery and vastness and beauty and fragility of being alive; and our yearning to know ourselves as ordinary, extraordinary, human beings.
My hope is that, if we work together, you will feel more in touch with what most sincerely matters to you, and more able to embody all of yourself.
Education and Training
- Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Tulane University, 2008
- Master’s of Education in Counselor Education from the University of New Orleans, 2013
- Returned Peace Corps Peru Volunteer
- Licensed and regulated by the state of Tennessee as a Licensed Professional Counselor with the Mental Health Service Provider designation (LPC-MHSP).
- Licensed and regulated by the state of North Carolina as a LCMHC
- Licensed by the state of Florida to provide teletherapy
- Certified Brainspotting Therapist
- Trained in incorporating meditation into Psychotherapy (Tara Brach’s Meditation and Psychotherapy training.)
- Level 1 and 2 trauma sensitive yoga trained (Yoga for Trauma and Resiliency from Sacred Roots Wellness)
- Completed training in Integrative and Nutritional medicine for mental health
- Completed Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional course on applying neuroscience to treating anxiety, panic and worry
- Fully certified Realization Process teacher, a direct path to embodied nondual awakening
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi