- Depression support
- Bilingual English Spanish
- Family and parenting
About Margarita
Margarita Araiza-Johnston is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience. She provides thoughtful, down-to-earth therapy for people facing depression and other life stresses. Margarita speaks English and Spanish and brings practical help to sensitive topics like grief and relationship struggles.
She trained in social work at Tulane University after earning a BA in Sociology and Anthropology with a minor in French. Early in her career she worked with children and families in Illinois and California and later served as a hospice social worker and as a suicide and crisis counselor in Louisiana.
Margarita has experience in assessment, child abuse and neglect, family systems, and domestic violence. She also completed programs in the theory and practice of mediation and family law mediation, which inform how she helps people sort through conflict and communication issues.
Her approach blends attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused techniques, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small behavior changes, and reframe painful stories that keep them stuck.
She offers bilingual support for English and Spanish speakers and works with a wide range of concerns including parenting, intimacy-related issues, ADHD, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and fertility or aging-related worries. To start, visitors use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.
She trained in social work at Tulane University after earning a BA in Sociology and Anthropology with a minor in French. Early in her career she worked with children and families in Illinois and California and later served as a hospice social worker and as a suicide and crisis counselor in Louisiana.
Margarita has experience in assessment, child abuse and neglect, family systems, and domestic violence. She also completed programs in the theory and practice of mediation and family law mediation, which inform how she helps people sort through conflict and communication issues.
Her approach blends attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused techniques, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small behavior changes, and reframe painful stories that keep them stuck.
She offers bilingual support for English and Spanish speakers and works with a wide range of concerns including parenting, intimacy-related issues, ADHD, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and fertility or aging-related worries. To start, visitors use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.