About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to make hard conversations feel manageable.
She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. Sessions often include practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions.
How Margaret works
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take meaningful steps when anxiety or avoidance get in the way. Margaret also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build a trusting space. She listens for patterns that cause repeated conflict or pain, then helps people try small changes that make daily life easier.
The tone in sessions is respectful and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on real-world problem solving. People come to her for many concerns, including addiction, grief, body image struggles, parenting stress, career strain, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and intimacy issues. She pays attention to how past losses, adoption or foster care history, and attachment wounds show up in relationships and sense of self.
Margaret works through a collaborative process. Together she and the client set goals, track progress, and adjust tools as needed. She encourages pacing that feels doable and supports steady steps toward change.
Margaret lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Margaret works with
The areas below are the ones Margaret selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Margaret uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on small, testable changes and practical homework that fit into daily life.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take action even when discomfort is present. ACT is useful for stress, avoidance, and making values-based choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margaret will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts tools over time and invites feedback to make sessions feel useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is often used for deeper conversations and skill coaching, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins through chat or text work well for tracking progress, practicing skills, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets hectic.
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