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Margaret Brittingham-LPC-MHSP

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Coaching

What is the difference between coaching and counseling?

Coaching is not the same as counseling. The focus in coaching is on setting and achieving specific goals to improve your life. In coaching, we work together to come up with a structured plan to meet specific goals of yours and I provide lots of concrete feedback and strategies.

In therapy, our focus is to help you work through emotional wounds, unresolved trauma and to help you learn how to ease the distress caused by anxiety, depression, OCD, and really difficult life circumstances. We usually meet for weekly 50 minute sessions, and start to meet less frequently as you begin to feel better.

What is best for me, coaching or counseling?

If you have a goal you want to work towards AND things like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, divorce, or new parenthood AREN’T interfering with your life, then coaching may be for you. If they ARE overwhelming you, then therapy is probably for you. Contact me for a free consultation to discuss what may be best for your specific situation!

I offer coaching tailored to clients specific goals, as well as specifically for meditation and mindfulness, or Brainspotting processing sessions.

Coaching could be for you if:

  • You feel mostly okay and want to deepen your personal growth
  • You have specific goals that you want to reach, but you can’t get over the obstacles to meeting them by yourself
  • You want to explore what is holding you back from the life you want to live and have concrete strategies to get out of your own way
  • You want a teammate to hold you accountable for your goals and to help you see any blind spots that are holding you back
  • You want to deepen your experience of embodiment and the radical freedom and acceptance that can come with it
  • You want a holistic lens to help you feel empowered in your own life; with attention paid to nutrition, sleep, exercise as well as to your patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving

Brainspotting Processing sessions could be for you if:

  • You have met with me in the past and have experience with Brainspotting
  • You want to enhance your creativity
  • You want to work through sports performance issues
  • You want to use Brainspotting to improve your meditation practice or to deepen your spiritual experience and unity consciousness and open your being more fully

Meditation and Mindfulness coaching may be for you if:

  • You have tried to establish a practice and haven’t been successful
  • You are overwhelmed with the different types of meditation available
  • You feel like you are failing at meditation
  • You want to learn more about different types of meditation and which one may be best for you
  • You want to be more intentional and present in your life and relationships
  • You want meditation to be a pleasure and not a chore
  • You want meditation to fit into your life and help deepen your experience

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Testimonials

able to move through serious trauma

“I had the incredible privilege of working with Margaret this past summer during an hour long brainspotting session. Immediately, I felt at ease and thanks to Margaret’s calm and guiding nature, and years of expertise, I was able to move through some serious trauma that had been holding me back. Healing is a never ending journey, or so I’ve come to discover, but what’s amazing about this experience – and every experience I’ve had with Margaret – is the ability to face your fears and suppressed memories in the comfort of a safe and judgment-free space. Nothing is more important to me than peace of mind these days, and Margaret’s techniques and wisdom have served me a great deal in this area of my life. To this day, I continue to be grateful for the work she promotes and for the healing she has provided me in the process. Looking forward to my next session!”

Brainspotting client

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”.

- individual therapy 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.”

- Brainspotting client

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

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, Tuesdays, Saturdays

South Nashville: Wednesdays, Thursdays

Mondays: 9 AM- 330 PM, last session starts at 230PM

Tuesdays: 9AM-330 PM, last session starts at 230PM

Wednesdays: 9AM-330PM, last session starts at 230PM

Thursdays: Occasional availability

Saturdays: Occasional availability

**I respond to emails and texts during office hours Monday-Wednesday**

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