About Margaret
Margaret Johnston is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She brings 11 years of clinical experience and a calm, listening-first style to sessions. Her first aim is to help clients feel understood and a little less alone.
She uses clear, practical conversation to identify patterns that get in the way. That can mean tracking moments of avoidance, working on manageable behavior changes, or naming unmet emotional needs.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace each person can handle, with attention to safety and comfort around difficult memories. Margaret draws on several therapy approaches to meet different needs. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and person-centered listening.
Emotionally focused and attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship and intimacy concerns. She has worked with people affected by trauma and first responder stress, and brings experience supporting those facing identity and sexuality questions. She also addresses eating and body image struggles, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related challenges in daily life.
Margaret completed a Master of Clinical Psychotherapy at the University of North Florida and holds a Florida LMHC. She also trained in clinical pastoral education, which strengthened her listening skills. She views clients as partners in figuring out values, goals, and small steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Margaret often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts, clarify personal values, and take small consistent actions toward a life that matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and trying practical behavior experiments to change difficult patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, low mood, and daily functioning challenges.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. She will listen to your goals and together you will choose methods that fit your needs and pace. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and short-term goals.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on stress, relationships, ADHD-related routines, and mood concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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