About Margaret Howard, MFA, LCSW
Margaret works within the intersections of somatic and depth psychotherapies, calling in land wisdom, dream work, ritual, spiritual reconnection deepening into communication with the land, and boundary warrioring. Their practice serves women, non-binary, and femme folks who are interested in compassionately working with anxiety, trauma, disordered eating, recovery from cultic dynamics, deepening into connection with the land, and re-learning how to truly rest, all within a HAES-aligned, fat positive, decolonizing, anti-racist frame. Margaret is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois and Missouri, serving both states via Telehealth. Their life includes grandchildren, their coworker and therapy dog, Nya, and building a regenerative food forest in southern Illinois on their small plot of land.
This work is in relationship with the how trauma and anxiety express in the body, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, intergenerationally and within the community. Margaret's work and perspective includes the effects of colonization, slavery, capitalism, and other abusive systems as they impacted our ancestors and ourselves in the present time. This work engages deep archetype and family inheritance of traumas and patterns (in adoptees as well as those raised by biological parents), and recognized the importance of all life to our wellbeing, including animals, plants, and the very land we live upon. Theoretical influences include Van der Kolk, Ogden, Porjes, Levine, Estes, and other doing research and work in the triune brain model, the autonomic nervous system, and the mind/body. At the center of this is a mindfulness orientation. Before embarking upon this work Margaret lived a varied life, including as in electronics in the US Army and afterwards, laying railroad track, getting a pilot's license, working construction, being a stay-at-home mom, musician (piano/flute/voice), writer for newspapers, technical writer for aircraft, college writing instructor, women's health advocate, aspiring midwife, web designer, landscaper, and part time private chef. Born in Illinois, Margaret has lived in several states in the US as well as some other countries. She has studied with elders of land-spirit recognizing spiritual traditions, always trying not to co-opt, colonize, or romanticize. Currently serving on the State's Attorney's Citizens Advisory Board for Jackson County, Illinois. Margaret is a U.S. Army veteran. Selected Publications, Interviews:
Afterward by Margaret Howard
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Presenting on provision of services to victims and survivors of human trafficking in the United States,
for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kazakhstan, 2014.
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Formal Education Master of Social Work, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2000 Bachelor of Science, University Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1994 |