About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty years in practice. She offers steady, practical support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life shifts. Margaret brings a calm, respectful presence and focuses on helping clients find workable steps forward.
Her background includes long experience helping people recover from trauma and emotional abuse. She has also supported those dealing with relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction, grief, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood changes.
Background and approach
Margaret uses clear, straightforward language in sessions so clients understand each step. In session she aims to combine mind and body awareness with talk-based strategies. That means noticing how the body responds to stress while also working on thoughts and behaviors.
She adapts the pace to each person's needs and comfort level. Her training and license are listed as LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She holds licenses in California and New Jersey, and she practices from New Jersey.
Margaret conducts work in English and uses a collaborative style that centers the client's goals. People who choose her often want a practical plan and steady support during change. Margaret helps clients identify concrete skills, test small changes, and build on what works.
She encourages realistic steps toward clearer relationships and better daily coping.
Therapeutic approaches that work online and in person
Margaret uses methods that connect what people feel in their bodies with what they think and do. Somatic work focuses on bodily sensation and movement to help people notice how stress shows up physically and learn gentle ways to release tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients clarify values and take small committed steps even when difficult feelings appear. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build clearer, more supported ways of relating.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Margaret will listen to your story, discuss options, and try different techniques to find what fits your needs and goals. She works collaboratively so the plan reflects your preferences and practical life demands.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats allow regular check-ins, homework support, and flexible ways to practice body awareness and coping skills between sessions. The format you choose can be changed as needs evolve, giving practical options for steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, California
- Languages
- English