Margot
Schultz, LPC
I am a Licensed Counselor who has specialized in individual and relationship therapy. Now I am an author writing about the Helping Professions, career discovery, personal growth, emotional intelligence, and the Way of Compassion.
COUNSELOR & WRITER
Deposit Your Compassion Here:
A Therapist’s Journey into Helping Others
FORTHCOMING BOOK
After watching her only child get ready to leave for college, a full-time mom decides it’s time to reinvent her life by plunging into graduate school; she’s on a quest for a meaningful life and a second career; there she masters mental health tools and concepts which she will bring to her clients for healing; guiding those who wrestle with self-sabotage and resistance to move toward their truest self.
Margot Schultz, LPC has been working in clinical practice since 2010, providing mental health counseling. Her training and direct experience has included therapeutic modalities such as Emotional Freedom technique, Mindfulness-based stress reduction, Polyvagal theory, trauma work such as EMDR and Brainspotting, Gottman method for couples, pastoral care in hospitals, end-of-life care in hospice, and of course, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Over the course of many years, her treatment focus has been gravitating toward helping people navigate Life Transitions (at any age) especially those which impact self-esteem.
Meet Margot
Role Models & Predecessors
Margot has been interested in Carl Rogers since the beginning of her graduate school training. His emphasis on insight-oriented therapy has been influential, as well as his teaching on Unconditional Positive Regard. He directed his students to try as much as possible to feel what the client is feeling (empathy) in order to make the treatment as relevant as possible to them.
Her second favorite psychologist is Martin Seligman who founded the Positive Psychology movement – including the work of Sonja Lyubomirsky.
In nonfiction literature, Margot has continued to return to the writings of Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hahn and Jacques Philippe. In philosophy, she admires the existentialist Soren Kierkegaard. In the memoir category, she first read Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung. Now she favors feminist memoirs such as Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Educated by Tara Westover.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was her favorite book club novel.
Margot Schultz’s forthcoming book is a memoir about her experiences in the "Helping Professions” and what it looks like to assist others with their problems. It is also a deeper look at Compassion. Every person coming for counseling is seeking this one treasure, more than anything else.
Some of the movies that Margot most admires for their intelligence and psychological nuance are:
Julia set in World War II Europe (1977) starring Vanessa Redgrave
What Dreams May Come (1998) starring Robin Williams
Lost in Translation set in Japan (2003)
Past Lives set in South Korea and the USA (2023)
Sentimental Value set in Sweden (2025)
Films
Counselor & Writer