About Margaret Howard, MFA, LCSW
Margaret Howard is a A Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), she is able to independently practice in Colorado, Illinois, and Missouri (all states with which she has deep familial and Land connections), and via Telehealth. A crone-aged grandparent who has lived in small towns, rural areas, and in major cities and across the U.S.,, Europe, and Scandinavia.
The work she offers is within the frame of a system she conceived, comprised of evidence-based based methods for which she has been trained, The Four Pathways©: The Land, The Unconscious, The Body, and The Conscious, which works with and at 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, as well as cognitive methods. In recent years Margaret has taken courses and workshops in the intersections of the works of Carl Jung and JRR Tolkien, including study of Dr. Rebecca Tarnas's PhD work on the subject, lectures from her as well as other Jungians working with Tolkien and myth in general,, as well as her course The Mythopoetic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien: Reading The Lord of the Rings, and brings a mythopoetic frame into the therapeutic space to help clients access the depths of their own psyches and live, and continues along this course of study. As James Hollis says in Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life, “We are required to accept that there is no parent to lead the way, no guru, no ideology to save us from the complexity and ambiguity of life. The measure of our personal development will hinge on two factors: our willingness to accept responsibility for finding our own myth, and our ability to sustain the ambiguity that always precedes a new experience of meaning. This task is critical for both the individual and society" (1995). Before finding her way to realizing a life-long desire to undertake this profession, Margaret has worked in home construction, laying railroad track, as a radio systems installation and repair person in the US Army. Immediately after getting out of the Army, where she worked in and fell in love with small, maneuverable helicopters, she got er private fixed-wing pilot's license, and much later went on to work as a technical writer for an aircraft manufacturing company. After spending more than 10 years at home with her children stay-at-while also doing childbirth education. she spent a few years working in journalism, being a part-time professional musician (piano/flute/vocals/songwriting), teaching college writing, doing web design and various kinds of technical writing. Margaret's first graduate degree was a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry. During and after completing the Master of Social Work degree, she worked as a human trafficking policy advocate, training law enforcement, medical workers, and NGOs regarding human trafficking prevention and treatment and a crisis response clinician. During this time she began to study the need for yoga to be trauma-informed, and wrote on that subject. Now, Margaret enjoys her work as psychotherapist in private practice. She continues to work on several books, including a novel, a memoir, and a non-fiction work in the field of mental health. Margaret grew up around water and forest. Lakes, the rivers of southwest Missouri, and at times the oceans. Her elders taught her how to navigate the land, build fire, read the signs of weather, plants, trees, and birds, and to hunt, fish, garden, and cook. Margaret is a US military 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 Some Trainings, Modalities, & Training Areas This is not a complete list Somatic Experiencing (Y1) Polyvagal Theory Multiple Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Trainings Sand Tray Somatic Depth trainings Trauma and the Soul (with Donald Kalcshed) Body positivity and "health at all sizes" Telehealth Ethics Telehealth Security Considerations HIPAA Motivational Interviewing CBT, DBT, ACT Understand Cults: The Basics, Dr. Stephen Hassan Multiple trainings in human trafficking, coercive control EMDR Levels 1 & 2 EMDR for Child Abuse Recovery Illinois Social Work Licensure Supervisor Training FLASH Technique, Basic and Advanced Multiple Cultural Competency trainings Military Sexual Trauma Preventing Veteran and Military Suicide Ethical Considerations & Best Practices with LGBTQIA+ Clients Internal Family Systems and Social Worker Self Care Shadow Work with James Hollis Many years working with Lakota Medicine Man, William Baker Becca Tarnis. Intersection of Jung's Red Book and J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trauma and the Soul with Donald Klashed Archetypal Astrology with Lawrence Hillman (son of James Hillman) Land Connectedness with Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen The Mythopoetic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien: Reading The Lord of the Rings and Ancestral Lineage Healing with Daniel Foor Trauma-Informed Yoga Archetypal Psychology Depth Somatics Myth and Story Work, with Jean Shinoda Bolen, Sharon Blackie, and others Dream work of various schools/types Land Reconnection Eco-grief |