About Karin
Karin Johnson is a licensed master social worker with 21 years of experience helping people move past difficult spots in life. She welcomes direct, practical work and aims to make therapy a comfortable, approachable process. Karin's manner is warm, empathic, and nonjudgmental so callers can feel safe talking about what matters most.
She trained at the University of Michigan for her Master of Social Work and brings a broad clinical background to sessions.
Background and approach
Karin uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral techniques, acceptance-based work, and attachment-informed approaches to address problems. She prefers short, practical goals and hands-on tools that can be used between sessions. In practice she helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar concerns, and trauma and abuse.
She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, intimacy challenges, grief, addictions, career questions, and changes like divorce or blended family transitions. Parenting strain, caregiver stress, and aging or chronic illness issues are also areas she addresses. Karin uses worksheets, skill-building, and psychoeducation alongside mindfulness and strengths-focused strategies.
She aims to teach communication skills, boundary-setting, and coping techniques that change thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Sessions may include short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on a person's goals.
Karin offers resources to practice new skills between meetings so progress can continue outside of sessions. She provides services from Michigan and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients when appropriate.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values so they can act in ways that matter to them. It uses simple exercises to build acceptance and move toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches step-by-step skills to change them, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleeping problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and helps people develop healthier ways of relating and regulating emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Karin will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and shifting course if needed so sessions feel useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief support, homework check-ins, and maintaining momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on tools and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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