Margaret Auguste
Experienced LMFT focused on practical change
LMFT New Jersey
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Margaret
Margaret Auguste is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New Jersey with 20 years of clinical experience. She draws on long-term practice helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and the stress of life transitions.
Background and approach
Her manner is warm and interactive, and she focuses on building clear, practical steps forward. Clients meet a therapist who listens without labels and who tailors conversations to individual needs.
Sessions are grounded in real-life problem solving and in learning skills that people can use between appointments. Margaret uses a mix of approaches to match what each person wants to change.
Her work often includes strategies from the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns and communication. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them, and Attachment-Based approaches to look at how early bonds shape current behavior.
These methods get applied in straightforward ways for everyday problems like parenting strain, work stress, and grief. Margaret helps people tackle issues such as addiction, eating concerns, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue by combining practical skills with reflective work.
She pays attention to patterns like avoidance, control, codependency, and attachment wounds so clients can build healthier routines and boundaries. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works with adults seeking clearer communication, better emotion regulation, and steadier relationships.
How her approaches translate to online care
Margaret uses the Gottman Method to help people notice interaction patterns and practice clearer communication. That approach is useful when couples or partners want to reduce conflict and strengthen everyday connection. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take small steps toward those priorities, which suits work on anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they like to learn new skills, then use techniques that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process where plans change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video lets people practice communication skills face-to-face, phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
New Jersey, California
Languages
English