About Ingrid
Ingrid Johnson is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and phobias. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person. Ingrid aims to help people find clear, practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to put the person's experience first and build a respectful working relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness tools to reduce reactivity. With 21 years of counseling experience, Ingrid brings a steady, experienced presence to sessions. She prioritizes short, actionable strategies people can try between meetings.
That often includes simple routines for sleep, eating, and stress relief, and repeated practice of coping skills. Her approach is collaborative. She helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress together.
Communication skills and problem solving are common focuses, especially when relationships or family stress are involved. Clients can expect evening responsiveness to messages when possible and direct guidance about next steps. Outside work she enjoys jogging and walking her dog, and she brings a calm, down-to-earth style to sessions.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful partnership, which online sessions can support through steady, attentive conversation and shared goal-setting. This approach helps people feel heard and involved in planning next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works through noticing thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online sessions can use worksheets, brief coaching between meetings, and homework that fits daily life to reduce anxiety and phobia-related avoidance.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for managing strong emotions and practicing mindfulness. These tools are useful for learning how to calm intense reactions and improve day-to-day coping, and they translate well to coaching during video or messaging exchanges.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or text messaging work well for short check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing coaching between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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