- 10 years experience
- Bilingual English Spanish
- Focus on self esteem
About Margarita
Margarita Araiza-Johnston is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people face major life stresses. She blends practical tools with steady support to help clients handle anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and self-esteem concerns. Margarita speaks English and Spanish and draws on a background working with families, hospice patients, and crisis callers.
She trained in social work at Tulane University and holds a BA in sociology and anthropology. Early roles included hospice social work and suicide and crisis counseling, which shaped how she manages urgent concerns and difficult conversations. Her practice also draws on mediation training in family law and conflict resolution.
Margarita uses several therapy approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused methods are used to look at how relationships affect emotions and behavior. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy help people find their own motivation and reframe personal stories.
Her focus spans many concerns such as parenting, family conflict, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people facing fertility questions, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and issues around kink and alternative sex culture. Margarita aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through what matters most.
Clients usually start by sharing current struggles and goals. From there she and the client choose tools and steps that fit real life. The practice is based in New Mexico and services reflect her bilingual background and diverse clinical work history.
She trained in social work at Tulane University and holds a BA in sociology and anthropology. Early roles included hospice social work and suicide and crisis counseling, which shaped how she manages urgent concerns and difficult conversations. Her practice also draws on mediation training in family law and conflict resolution.
Margarita uses several therapy approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused methods are used to look at how relationships affect emotions and behavior. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy help people find their own motivation and reframe personal stories.
Her focus spans many concerns such as parenting, family conflict, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people facing fertility questions, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and issues around kink and alternative sex culture. Margarita aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through what matters most.
Clients usually start by sharing current struggles and goals. From there she and the client choose tools and steps that fit real life. The practice is based in New Mexico and services reflect her bilingual background and diverse clinical work history.