About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She practices in New Jersey and helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship challenges. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she focuses on practical ways to move forward.
Margaret uses straightforward conversation to understand what feels most urgent to each person. She listens without judgment and crafts a plan that fits daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling big life changes. Her background includes many years working with people who experienced trauma, emotional abuse, and addiction. She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment work, and attachment-based ideas to address patterns that keep problems going.
The therapist adapts tools to what actually helps a person in their day-to-day routines. Margaret often focuses on concrete steps such as emotion regulation skills, clearer boundaries, and realistic goal setting. She also supports exploration of relationship patterns and self-worth issues that affect choices and stress levels.
The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s readiness. People who prefer direct guidance paired with empathic listening tend to find her style accessible. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so clients can pick what fits their schedule and comfort.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to arrange the first appointment.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Margaret uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing symptoms that interfere with daily life.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them and focusing on valued actions. ACT can help with stress, motivation, and managing persistent difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Margaret works with each client to identify which methods fit their goals and lifestyle. She adjusts strategies over time based on how things are progressing and what the client prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, flexible contact for coaching, check-ins, and follow-up between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable. Licensed professionals can combine these formats to match pacing, access needs, and personal comfort.
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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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