Margaret Johnston

Margaret Johnston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, holding the credential FL LMHC MH15423, and brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice.

She earned a Master of Clinical Psychotherapy from the University of North Florida in 2013 and completed a nine-month Clinical Pastoral Education internship under Ed Wilder that emphasized deep listening. She also spent eight months in the Talk program at Wounded Warrior, where she listened to participants as part of her clinical work.

Margaret combines public speaking, community organizing, and social and environmental activism with long-standing experience as a listener. She works with people on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, coping with life changes, LGBT issues, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating disorders, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.

Her clinical style draws on Trauma Supportive Therapy to address painful past experiences at a pace that feels safe for each person, and she practices person-centered approaches that begin by meeting clients where they are. She uses strength-based work and a therapy of defining personal meaning to help clients clarify options, plan, set goals, and pursue a purposeful life without being continually tripped up by the past.

Margaret strives to be culturally sensitive and non-prejudicial, and she treats race as central to other therapeutic concerns when it matters to the client. She describes her practice as inclusive, secular, competent, affirming, and non-judgmental, and she has experience supporting people in transition as well as those from LGBTQA, polyamory, kink, and non-gendered communities.