Margaret Auguste , LMFT

Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical work in New Jersey. She brings a calm, respectful presence and a straightforward style to sessions. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges after trauma or abuse.

She offers practical, talk-based therapy that focuses on what matters most to each person. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match the client's needs. Margaret listens closely and helps clients set clear, achievable goals for change.

Her background includes a blend of approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. She also uses attachment-informed and client-centered methods to address patterns that affect relationships and self-worth. Those tools are applied to concerns like parenting strain, grief, body image, addiction, and workplace stress.

Margaret has worked with people facing complex life shifts including divorce, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. She helps clients facing mood conditions such as bipolar disorder or disruptive mood dysregulation by focusing on coping skills and daily routines.

Her tone is warm and interactive, aiming to reduce shame and remove stigmatizing labels. Sessions are tailored to the individual, and plans change as progress is made. Margaret supports LGBT clients and addresses intimacy-related and eating concerns with attention to each person's values and goals.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values despite painful thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and new behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood. It can help with anxiety, mood symptoms, and problem-solving in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Margaret will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and pace. She adapts tools and homework collaboratively so the plan stays relevant as needs evolve.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for an in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or other daily responsibilities and let people try different formats to see what helps most.