About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She works with individuals facing depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, and attention challenges. She practices in New Jersey and offers care in English.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps people can try between meetings. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and respect.
Background and approach
Margaret draws from several therapeutic approaches to tailor care to each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when values-based choices and emotional acceptance can help move someone forward.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and bonding problems. Client-centered principles keep the conversation grounded in the person's goals and experience. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed.
Sessions typically focus on short, manageable goals. Margaret helps people practice new skills, test small changes, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. She also supports problem-solving around parenting, career strain, grief, and blended family challenges.
People who prefer a collaborative, respectful therapist often find her approach accessible. She aims to meet each person where they are and to create a clear plan for progress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Margaret commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult emotions, clarify their values, and take action toward a more meaningful life despite discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes in thinking and behavior to reduce distress.She also incorporates attachment-based ideas to address relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections. Together these approaches give tools to manage anxiety, phobias, relationship strain, and mood concerns while keeping the person's goals central. Choosing the right approach is part of the work; she collaborates with each person to decide what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill coaching, or when a written exchange feels easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and try different ways of working together.
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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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