Therapist profile
Margarita Araiza-Johnston, LCSW
New Mexico
LCSW - Family and Relationship Concerns
Continue with MargaritaWhere Margarita stands
- Credentials
- LCSW
- License
- LCSW, New Mexico / C-06992; LCSW, Hawaii / LCSW-4991; LCSW, Utah / 13322972-3501; LCSW, Oregon / L14477; LICSW, Washington / LW 61494715; LCSW, Arkansas / 13152-C; LCSW, California / 121394
- NPI
- 1821232984
- Experience
- 10 years
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Location
- New Mexico
About
- Attachment work
- CBT strategies
- Bilingual English Spanish
About Margarita
Margarita Araiza-Johnston is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of practice experience. She works with people facing family strain, parenting stress, depression, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with grief, intimacy struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and issues around codependency.
She started with a BA in Sociology and Anthropology and a minor in French from the University of Redlands. She then completed a Master of Social Work at Tulane University. Early work included roles with children and families in Illinois and California, followed by social work in hospice and crisis and suicide counseling in Louisiana.
Her background includes training in mediation and family law mediation. That experience informs her focus on family systems, assessment, and communication problems. She has worked with child abuse and neglect cases, domestic violence, and crisis intervention in clinical settings.
Margarita offers bilingual therapy in English and Spanish. Her practice draws on approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy. In sessions she helps people talk through coping with life changes, stress, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
She practices in New Mexico and holds LCSW credentials in Hawaii and California as well. Session cost varies by location and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online therapy options button.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships. It looks at how early and current connections shape how people seek closeness and handle conflict, which can help with codependency and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name core emotions during relationship moments and works to change interaction patterns that lead to disconnection.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, life circumstances, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods, notice what helps, and adjust direction if needed rather than relying on a single technique.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats. Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions will be delivered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, or let someone avoid camera use while still talking by phone or messaging when those formats are available. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment, CBT, and emotionally-focused tools to an online setting to address relationship patterns, coping skills, and emotional regulation.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
New Mexico, Hawaii, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arkansas, California
Languages
English, Spanish
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What issues does she help with?
She works with family and parenting problems, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and codependency.
How would she describe her therapy style?
Her approach combines attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns.
How long has she been practicing?
She has ten years of clinical experience including hospice social work and crisis and suicide counseling.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is an LCSW and practices from New Mexico, with LCSW credentials in HI and CA listed.
Can I work with her if I speak Spanish?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.