Premium Emotional Wellness Therapy for High-Achieving Professionals Who Are Done Performing Okay.
Virtual therapy that goes as deep as you've always needed without the waitlists, the insurance limitations, or the one-size-fits-all approach. This is personalized, private-pay emotional care for the version of you that deserves more than 'coping strategies.
Private-pay · Virtual · Exclusively for adults ready to do the real work
About Us
Compassionate.
Empowering.
Transformative.
Trusted.
"You've mastered the external world. The career, the responsibilities, the showing up. But inside? There's anxiety you can't quiet, a nervous system that runs on overdrive, emotions that spill out at the wrong moments, or a hollowness beneath all the accomplishments.
Dunns Counseling Services exists for the high-achieving professional who knows that emotional health isn't a luxury, it's the foundation everything else is built on."
"My goal is not to help you cope with your life. It is to help you actually feel it."
About Margaret Dunn
Hi, I’m Margaret Dunn, also known as "Peggy". A therapist, emotional eating coach, and creator of the Release It Now!™ 5-Step Process.
I founded Dunn's Counseling Services because I believe high-achieving people deserve more than standard care. The therapy system wasn't built for you. It was built for volume, not transformation.
I work differently. I take time to understand the full complexity of who you are: what you've built, what you carry, what you've never said aloud.
My clinical training is deep, my approach is evidence-based and trauma-informed, and my goal is not to help you cope. It's to help you heal.
18+ Years of Experience
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Missouri
MA (Master of Arts), University of Illinois Springfield
Certified Life Coach (CLC)
Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach (CFMHC)
Master Practitioner of NLP
18+ Years of Experience
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Missouri
MA (Master of Arts), University of Illinois Springfield
Certified Life Coach (CLC)
Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach (CFMHC)
Master Practitioner of NLP
Virtual Therapy Sessions Available
Specializing in Emotional Eating, Anxiety & Burnout
What We Address Together
Anxiety & Burnout Recovery
When high performance stops feeling sustainable and the cost to your wellbeing has become too high to ignore.
Nervous System Regulation
Trauma-informed support for the body and mind that has been on high-alert for far too long.
Emotional Resilience
Building the internal capacity to feel deeply, respond wisely, and recover without losing yourself.
Trauma-Informed Healing
Safe, evidence-based processing of experiences that continue to shape your present long after they've passed.
Executive Wellness
Therapy designed for the emotional complexity of leadership — the loneliness, the pressure, the parts no one sees.
Life Transitions
Navigating identity, purpose, and loss of self through the major shifts that even successful careers can't prepare you for.
You're Not Failing. You're Just Carrying Too Much.
You schedule everything. You show up for everyone. You know all the right things to do. The self-care apps, the morning routines, the gratitude journals.
And yet, there's this persistent undercurrent.
The anxiety that follows you into your most successful moments
The exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix
The emotional eating that happens after a "great" day
The irritability that surprises you and the shame that follows
The feeling that everyone else has it figured out
You don't need another productivity hack. You need a space where you can finally exhale and someone who understands the particular complexity of being a high-achiever who is emotionally struggling.
Why Private Pay Is the Premium Choice
Clients often begin therapy feeling emotionally drained, overwhelmed, and frustrated by patterns they cannot seem to change. Over time, they begin to experience a profound shift in how they think, feel, and respond.
As therapy progresses, clients often develop a healthier relationship with food, greater emotional resilience, improved confidence, stronger boundaries, and a more grounded sense of self. Many experience less anxiety, more energy, greater clarity, and a renewed sense of peace in their everyday lives.
Therapy is not about becoming someone different. It is about returning to who you are beneath the stress, overwhelm, and survival patterns.
Introducing
Get Your Hunger Satisfied
Emotional Wellness & Transformational Coaching for Women Ready to Break Free from Emotional Eating
Healing emotional eating goes beyond food. That’s why Margaret Dunn also created Get Your Hunger Satisfied — a transformational coaching experience designed to help women break free from emotional eating, stress-driven habits, and the cycle of guilt and frustration.
At Get Your Hunger Satisfied, women learn how to break free from emotional and binge eating by addressing the emotional and subconscious patterns driving the behavior. Through a compassionate and transformational approach, clients develop healthier coping strategies, rebuild self-trust, and create sustainable habits that support long-term emotional and physical wellness.
How Get Your Hunger Satisfied Helps:
Identify emotional triggers connected to overeating and binge eating
Rebuild confidence, self-worth, and emotional resilience
Create healthier habits without restriction or shame
Reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm
Develop a sustainable, balanced relationship with food and body image
Whether you feel emotionally exhausted, stuck in unhealthy patterns, or frustrated by years of dieting, Get Your Hunger Satisfied offers compassionate support designed to help you heal from the inside out.
Dunns Counseling Services operates as a fully private-pay practice. This means your care is never shaped by what an insurance company decides is 'medically necessary.' Instead, your treatment plan is shaped entirely by you. Your goals, your timeline, your depth of work.
Private pay also means complete confidentiality: no diagnosis on your permanent medical record unless you choose that. This is therapy designed to protect your privacy while delivering the most personalized care available.
You've Invested in Everything Else. It's Time to Invest in This.
You do not need more willpower.
You need the right support, the right tools, and a safe place to heal what is underneath the struggle.
If emotional eating, anxiety, stress, or burnout are keeping you stuck, therapy can help you move forward with more clarity, confidence, and peace.
Limited availability · Virtual sessions available nationwide
You've Invested in Everything Else. It's Time to Invest in This.
The work you'll do here doesn't just improve how you feel — it improves how you lead, love, parent, and show up. Premium private-pay therapy for professionals who are ready to heal.
Limited availability · Virtual sessions available nationwide
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