About Margarita
Margarita Araiza-Johnston is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, practical approach to therapy for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes and stress. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns.
Parents and individuals concerned about family dynamics, parenting strain, or ADHD-related challenges will find straightforward strategies and support. She also addresses intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, and career questions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in hospice care and crisis and suicide counseling. That experience shaped how she responds to intense moments and sudden loss. She also has training in mediation and family law mediation which informs her skill at clarifying conflicts and communication patterns.
Margarita uses approaches like attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, name emotions, and try small, doable changes between meetings. Sessions are practical and rooted in everyday life.
She offers therapy in New Mexico and provides services through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who prefer Spanish can work in that language. To begin, clients follow the site's matching steps and schedule sessions according to availability.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions; it helps people understand patterns of trust, closeness, and distance in relationships and can reduce conflict and loneliness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress in daily life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and process emotions in the moment to improve connection and resolve recurring relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions can shift over time so techniques fit what’s helpful in the moment rather than being fixed from the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow brief check-ins or coaching between sessions and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it easier to attend therapy from different locations and to pick a format that suits daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico, Hawaii, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arkansas, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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