Margaret A. Howard, MFA, LCSW
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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:


  • Presentor, The Breathe Network training course, "Healing Sexual Trauma: A Professional Training in Trauma-Informed Care." This is a training course for healing arts practitioners. The unit I participate in is "Transformative Perspectives on Healing, Justice and Self-Care". Registration is open until September 30, 2019, and can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-sexual-trauma-a-professional-training-in-trauma-informed-care-tickets-61759045969?fbclid=IwAR3nAJP7eFKE78RO5EqgTvBAdEJ5HbeM5UzaJ3Fj2_Y9CfHOl00CdXzmrVY
  • Afterword, in Brendon Abram's Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: A Practical Guide. (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House) Click here to order.
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Afterward by Margaret Howard

  • Podcast Interview with Shannon Crow for The Connected Yoga Teacher, "Trauma Training For Every Yoga Teacher with Margaret Howard" 2017
  • Interview with Gail Sheehy for Politico, "America's Therapists Are Worried About Trump's Affect On Your Mental Health" October, 2016
  • Interview: Wisdom of the Wounded Healer, with The Breathe Network, August 19, 2015
  • Yes! Magazine, August 26, 2014​
  • Huffington Post Live "How Big Data is Fighting Human Trafficking: Google, CNN, and Others Share Solutions

HuffPost Blog​ Click Here Includes:
  • How to Not (Even Accidentally) Be a D**k When Your Person Has Anxiety
  • Part I: Trauma Training Should Be Mandatory for Yoga Teachers
  • Part II: Trauma Training Should Be Mandatory for Yoga Teachers
  • ​Part III: Trauma Training Should Be Mandatory for Yoga Teachers​
  • One Last Word on Yoga and Trauma
  • Winter, the Puritans, and the Decolonization of Your Being
  • How Memes Are Hurting Trauma Survivors
  • 11 Healthy Ways to Grieve


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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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~~~ Member of the Breathe Network ~~~
Mission Statement
The Breathe Network connects survivors of sexual violence with trauma-informed, sliding-scale, holistic healing practitioners. We provide education and training for health and healing professionals on the impacts of sexual trauma and best practices in providing trauma-informed care to increase survivors' access to healing.
​Training, Theory, and Orientation

​​Licenses
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, State of Illinois / 149.021153
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker,  State of Missouri / 2014033182

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








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I'd Love to Have You Visit Soon!


​HOURS: Tues, Weds, Thurs 11am to 5pm
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Email: margaretlcsw@protonmail.com    
Phone: 618-221-5255
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