Margaret Auguste, LMFT

Margaret Auguste is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty years of clinical experience based in New Jersey. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of other life challenges. Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.

Margaret focuses on practical ways to make life feel more manageable. She listens first, then helps people name patterns and try small changes. Sessions often include talking through problems, learning new coping skills, and building routines that fit daily life.

Her background includes many years helping people who have struggled with parenting worries, grief, work stress, ADHD, and addictive behaviors. She also supports those dealing with intimacy-related issues, body image, and codependency. Her experience covers both long-term concerns and more immediate crises.

Clinically she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Margaret adapts these methods to what each person needs instead of following a fixed script.

People who come to her can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are set together. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on small, steady steps toward change. To begin, she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Margaret uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT often focuses on learning to accept difficult feelings while still moving toward meaningful goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. This work helps people improve communication, manage intimacy-related worries, and make different choices in relationships.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust based on what is working.

Confirm the exact session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use tools like worksheets and skills practice between meetings to reinforce progress.