Maggie Lemley

Maggie Lemley is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience in mental health care. She holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in Kentucky. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental space where feelings are explored and clearer choices emerge.

Maggie focuses on helping people reduce emotional suffering in practical ways. She aims to move beyond short-term relief from venting to deeper awareness and lasting change. Sessions emphasize understanding emotions, processing difficult experiences, and finding steps that fit each person’s life.

Her background includes long experience in community mental health and work with people who have severe and persistent mental illness. She has provided therapy across settings that included outpatient programs and assessment roles. During graduate training she completed an internship working with women in a correctional setting.

Over the years Maggie has worked with people managing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship struggles, trauma and grief. She also supports clients facing issues with sleep, eating, parenting, career decisions, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes helping those navigating LGBT concerns and intimacy-related issues.

Maggie keeps learning through professional trainings and conferences each year. That includes trainings in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, plus workshops on couples communication, alternative lifestyles, and military culture. She welcomes inquiries from people interested in exploring change and growth.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy combines talking about distressing memories with learning skills to manage strong emotions. It is often used for people processing experiences of trauma and abuse and can reduce overwhelming reactions while building coping tools.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes skills for handling intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. These skills help people who struggle with anger, persistent mood swings, or patterns that sabotage close connections.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people meet from a location that fits their day. Because session formats were not listed in the profile, confirm the specific online or in-person options available before booking so you know what to expect.