About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 20 years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, mood challenges, and the strains that come with life changes.
Background and approach
Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at people who want clear, practical help. She listens first and builds a plan with each person.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the client can handle. She avoids labels and emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and empathy in talks about difficult experiences like trauma or abuse.
Margaret uses a mix of approaches to fit different problems. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and on acceptance-oriented ideas to help people live alongside difficult feelings.
Attachment-based and client-centered work guide conversations about relationships and connection. People who reach out can expect short-term strategies and longer-term skill building.
That might look like learning coping skills for anxiety, practicing new ways to talk about relationship concerns, or pacing recovery after loss or burnout. The therapist adapts sessions when someone needs steadier support or brief check-ins.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different rhythms and schedules. Margaret aims to help people find clearer footing, whatever their starting point.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify what matters and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, teaching practical tools to change patterns that lead to distress; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape expectations and reactions, and it supports people wanting clearer, more stable connections.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together the client and therapist will try methods, adjust what’s not working, and combine strategies so the plan fits the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging works for brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, or people who find writing easier than speaking. These options allow therapy to fit work breaks, busy family days, or different energy levels while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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