Margarita Araiza-Johnston, LCSW

Licensed in New Mexico · 10 years in practice

Margarita Araiza-Johnston uses relationship-focused and evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate stressful life changes.

License and registration

LCSW, New Mexico: C-06992 · expires June 2026
LCSW, Hawaii: LCSW-4991 · expires June 2028
LCSW, Utah: 13322972-3501 · expires September 2026
LCSW, Oregon: L14477 · expires December 2027
LICSW, Washington: LW 61494715 · expires November 2026
LCSW, Arkansas: 13152-C · expires December 2027
LCSW, California: 121394 · expires March 2028
NPI: 1821232984 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 10
Languages: English, Spanish

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About Margarita

Margarita Araiza-Johnston uses relationship-focused and evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate stressful life changes. She works in New Mexico and brings a calm, clear style to care. Margarita has ten years of experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW.

She began with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology and a French minor from the University of Redlands. She then gained experience working with children and families in Illinois and California before earning a Master of Social Work from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Background and approach

That path led to roles in hospice care and crisis work, including suicide and crisis counseling. Margarita has experience with assessment, child abuse and neglect, family systems, and domestic violence work. She also completed programs in mediation and family law mediation, and offers bilingual therapy in English and Spanish.

Her background includes work on suicide prevention and crisis response. In sessions she draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy. She focuses on concrete goals like improving communication, managing anxiety, coping with grief, and addressing parenting stress.

She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and grief. Margarita also supports people facing family problems, divorce and separation, fertility concerns, and challenges related to aging and geriatric issues. Margarita aims to offer practical strategies and steady support.

She helps people identify patterns, try small changes, and build clearer ways to handle emotions and conflict.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Margarita lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Family conflicts
Parenting issues
Depression
Coping with life changes
Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Relationship issues
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Aging and geriatric issues
Attachment issues
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Emptiness
Family problems
Fertility issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Immigration issues
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Money and financial issues
Multicultural concerns
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Margarita names

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Online support

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in closeness, trust, and conflict and practice new ways of communicating with loved ones.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It includes practical exercises to test unhelpful beliefs, reduce anxiety, and change behavior, which adapt well to video or phone sessions with homework between meetings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margarita will collaborate to pick methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or coaching-style guidance. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently from different locations.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Margarita helps people with family and parenting stress, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also works with ADHD, compassion fatigue, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and related stresses.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach blends attachment work with cognitive and emotion-focused methods. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and understanding patterns in relationships and behavior.

What relevant experience does she bring?

She has ten years of clinical experience, including hospice social work and suicide and crisis counseling. She also has training in mediation and family law mediation.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She practices in New Mexico and holds the LCSW credential with ties to HI LCSW and CA LCSW as documented.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate bilingual clients.

How are sessions delivered online?

Therapy can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference and clinical needs.

How are fees and billing handled?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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