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Margaret Auguste

Compassionate clinician blending practical tools and insight

LMFT New Jersey

Experience
20 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Languages
English

About Margaret

Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New Jersey with two decades of clinical experience. She has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy difficulties, addiction concerns, and many other life challenges.

Background and approach

Her background includes work with parenting and family dynamics, grief and loss, mood disorders such as bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation, and issues around attention and executive functioning like ADHD. Her approach is collaborative and adaptable, drawing on evidence-informed methods including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused perspectives, client-centered principles, and dialectical behavior skills.

Sessions emphasize respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental tone, with treatment plans shaped to fit each person’s needs rather than relying on labels. Margaret aims to help clients build practical coping skills, strengthen relationships, and navigate transitions with more clarity and resilience.

She holds LMFT licensure in California and New Jersey and works in English. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and scheduling is arranged based on therapist availability and the site’s matching process.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care

Margaret integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment strategies into online work to help clients recognize unhelpful thoughts, build new coping habits, and clarify personal values that guide change. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying thought and behavior patterns that contribute to stress and mood difficulties and teaching skills to adjust them, which can be especially useful for anxiety, depression, and anger-related concerns. Acceptance and commitment therapy encourages noticing difficult inner experiences while committing to value-driven actions, supporting people who face grief, life transitions, or chronic emotional pain.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to explore relational patterns and emotional bonds that shape current difficulties, which can aid those struggling with intimacy issues, communication problems, or attachment wounds. Selecting the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to tailor methods to their goals, preferences, and the specifics of what they are facing rather than applying a single technique by default.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options that fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life changes, allow for convenient access from home, and let clients move at a pace that suits them while working toward practical, skills-based progress.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She addresses a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy problems, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD among other areas.
What is her therapeutic style and approach?
Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental, blending client-centered care with methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based therapy, and dialectical behavior skills.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings 20 years of clinical experience working as a marriage and family therapist with individuals and families across many presenting concerns.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with licensure listed as CA LMFT 153246 and NJ LMFT 37FI00183800 and practices in New Jersey.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in beginning therapy?
Prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule appointments according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Divorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Gottman MethodImago Relationship TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

New Jersey, California

Languages

English