Dr. Margaret "Betsy" Vonk, LCSW, CSW

Dr. Margaret "Betsy" Vonk is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and CSW who brings more than two decades of clinical practice and teaching to her counseling work. She earned her Master of Social Work at Florida State University and completed a PhD in Social Work at the University of Georgia, and she has spent over 20 years both counseling clients and training MSW students in clinical social work.

Her clinical experience spans a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, coping with life changes such as retirement and aging, adoption and foster care issues, and family of origin matters. She also works with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, caregiver stress and compassion fatigue, social anxiety and phobias, and issues commonly affecting women.

Vonk’s counseling style is warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative. She emphasizes clients’ strengths and supports the development of social-emotional skills that can be practiced in therapy and applied to everyday life. Although her early training was psychodynamic, she most often draws on the strengths perspective and cognitive behavioral techniques, and she integrates existential ideas when questions of life meaning arise. Her approach is personalized to each person’s needs and goals, with an emphasis on respectful, supportive guidance.

As a seasoned clinician and educator, Dr. Vonk focuses on helping people identify practical strategies and personal resources that support resilience and clearer decision making.