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Margaret Brittingham-LPC-MHSP

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About Me

About Me - Margaret Brittingham, LPCThe first job I found after college was doing HIV testing, counseling and street outreach in New Orleans. I fell in love with the counseling part and pursued a master’s. I have since worked in charter and metro public schools as a school based therapist, and in the Peace Corps working with youth in a small farming village 2 miles up in the Andes mountains. After the birth of my first child, I started a private practice focused on mind and body based therapeutic approaches (Brainspotting, embodiment meditation, yoga, and other somatic approaches). I use my own being as a laboratory to experiment with how I can alchemize suffering in my own life. This process inevitably requires showing up and developing a relationship with the parts of self, emotions, and experiences that we have suppressed, rejected, and made into an enemy.

The feedback my clients have given me is that I’m easy to talk to and collaborate with. I see myself as your teammate and guide. 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. I hold space for your healing, knowing that safe, empathically attuned relationships hold they key for unwinding the protective strategies that were formed in relationship. I also offer concrete and practical strategies that allow for transformation to happen.

Experimentation and troubleshooting are part of the process. In fact, examining our perfectionism and being willing to experiment in an effort to develop deeper contact with who we are is an essential foundation. We work together to come up with ways that will help you get out of your own way, grow, and heal.

I love my work because it helps me– requires me, even–to stay in deep contact with who I really am and what really matters to me: the essential goodness and vulnerability and shared humanity in all of us, the mystery and heartbreak and vastness and beauty and fragility of being alive, and our yearning to grow and to be better, and to fall deeper in love with all of life.

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.

A little more about me:

I have two young children and love spontaneous exploration with them. I also love all sorts of outdoor activities.

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).
  • Certified Brainspotting therapistBrainspotting.
  • 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 TFCBT (trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy) and have basic training in ARC (attachment, regulation, competency) training.
  • 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.
  • Certified Realization Process meditation teacher and embodiment 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

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Testimonials

Margaret is an excellent guide through the tough times

“Margaret is an excellent guide through the tough times that I’ve been facing. She is a wonderful listener and I never felt judged with her in any ways, which is what I was most worried about in speaking to a therapist.“

- Client

Made me feel understood and valued

“The shared experience of being mothers made me feel understood and valued. (Margaret) has a calmness and gentleness that really put me at ease. I learned a lot during our sessions. I identified a lot of underlying belief systems that were causing some of my discomfort and showing themselves after having a baby.”

- Client

She’s offered new ideas and approaches

“Margaret has been a major help to me for dealing with anxiety and depression. She’s offered new ideas and approaches that I had never even thought of”

- Client

Margaret was very down to earth

“Margaret was very down to earth, met me where I was, and led me where I wanted to go.”

- Client

Like talking to a very informed friend

“(Working with Margaret) felt like talking to a very informed friend or colleague vs being talked down to. I really appreciated how informed she was at all times”.

- female client, 26

I feel so much better having someone there…working in my favor

“Highly recommend. Margaret is such a good listener, very understanding and insightful. She helped me find different perspectives and solutions to get over mental health hurdles, without being judgmental or harsh. I feel so much better having someone there that understands me and is working in my favor.”

- Client

I continue to benefit from the work we did

“(Brainspotting with Margaret) helped me to process the trauma in a different, more direct and healing way than I had previously. I continue to benefit from the work we did.”

- Female Client, 55

Clients have a wonderful experience with Margaret

Not only is Margaret a wonderful, skilled therapist, but she continues to explore and learn new ways of showing up with her clients. She is always a student, and that’s the kind of therapist I would want for myself! Clients have a wonderful experience with Margaret and know she is really present with them in the room. Her presence is very gentle, and the clients I have referred have experienced wonderful healing and insight in their work with Margaret.I love her whole body approach to healing and use of Brainspotting in her practice, as well as how she incorporates mindfulness and yoga which is wonderful for clients who already connect to these practice or are integrating it into their process for the first time. I would refer clients to Margaret anytime.

Melanie Reese, LMFT

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Margaret Brittingham, MEd, LPC-MHSP
2200 21st Ave S, Ste 405
Nashville, TN, 37212
Phone: 615.601.0647
Margaret@mindbodytherapynashville.com

Office Hours

2200 21st Ave S, ste 405: Mondays and Tuesdays

Mondays: 9 AM- 330 PM (last session starts at 230P)

Tuesdays: 9AM-6PM, last session starts at 5PM

Virtual and Nature Therapy sessions:

Wednesdays: 9AM-6PM, last session starts at 5PM.

**I respond to emails and texts during office hours**

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