About Margaret
Margaret Johnston is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She meets clients with patience and clear attention, listening closely to what matters most and helping them find practical next steps. She uses a straightforward, person-centered way of working.
Sessions focus on listening, naming unmet emotional needs, and making small plans that move daily life forward. She emphasizes personal meaning and helps clients set goals that feel useful and achievable.
How Margaret works
Margaret draws on eleven years of clinical practice and a Master of Clinical Psychotherapy from the University of North Florida. Her background includes a nine-month Clinical Pastoral Education internship focused on deep listening and several months working in a program supporting wounded service members. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, and a client-centered stance.
That mix is aimed at helping with trauma, mood concerns, anxiety, and difficulties around identity and relationships. Margaret is inclusive and affirming of LGBT people and those exploring kink or alternative sexual cultures. She pays attention to the role of race and identity when it matters to a person’s experience.
She practices in Florida and works in English.
Margaret lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
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.
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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Margaret uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose values-based actions. That approach can support someone stuck in avoidance or feeling overwhelmed by worry.She also draws on attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help when trust, closeness, or repeated relationship hurts get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Margaret will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit their needs. She adapts techniques based on what helps in regular conversations rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people read facial cues and do deeper conversations, phone can be lower bandwidth and good for quicker check-ins, and chat or messaging can help maintain progress between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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