About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New Jersey. She brings 20 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to make sessions direct and understandable for worried parents and busy adults.
She focuses on practical skills and steady progress rather than labels. Sessions explore what is most pressing now and what can be changed.
Background and approach
Margaret mixes evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-minded practices to help people manage difficult feelings and stay engaged with their values. Margaret also attends to how relationships and attachment patterns shape struggles with intimacy, communication, and family roles. She helps people notice old patterns and try new ways of connecting.
Conversations often include simple exercises to improve communication and rebuild trust. When trauma, abandonment, or emotional abuse are part of the history, she works cautiously and step by step. The goal is to increase safety, pacing, and coping skills before tackling painful memories.
She also supports people coping with addiction, career stress, body image, and parenting strain. Margaret offers a collaborative style. She listens first, then suggests clear strategies and homework that fit daily life.
This practical focus helps people practice new habits between sessions and track what changes over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Margaret commonly draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, then replaces them with practical steps and experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on noticing difficult emotions while committing to values-driven actions, which can help with stress, grief, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with clients about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the client's needs so techniques can be tested and changed over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions and to get brief support when scheduling is tight. These options are meant to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep consistent work on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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