Mary Agnes "Maggie" Thompson, LPC-MHSP
Somatic-informed therapist helping with stress and grief
About Mary
Mary Agnes "Maggie" Thompson is a licensed professional counselor with six years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She uses somatic-informed methods alongside talk therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Maggie keeps sessions straightforward and respectful, focusing on what a person needs in the moment.
In sessions she pays attention to how emotions show up in the body as well as in thoughts. That combination can help when anxiety, panic, or sleep problems are present.
Background and approach
She also works with people facing LGBT and gender-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and career or life changes. Her style is collaborative and adaptive. She listens first, then helps shape a plan that fits each person’s goals.
Therapy may include short-term skills, meaning-making around past events, and noticing physical reactions that affect mood. Maggie holds the Tennessee LPC-MHSP credential. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Narrative and Psychodynamic approaches alongside somatic practices.
This mix lets her match tools to the issue at hand. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Practical steps are emphasized so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings appear in the body. Online sessions can include guided attention to breathing, posture, and movement to help manage anxiety, panic, and sleep issues. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills to notice thoughts and values-driven action; it is often used for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and naming emotions to improve emotional understanding and connection, which can help with grief, intimacy concerns, and processing trauma.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped or not helped before, and what feels workable day to day. Together you will try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy fits your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to meet around work, caregiving, or mobility limits and let people practice skills in their real-life environments. Licensed professionals can guide body-focused exercises, teach ACT tools, and offer emotion-focused conversations across these formats.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English