About Tricia
Tricia Johnson, LICSW, uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and parenting and family concerns. She focuses on real steps people can take in day-to-day life to feel steadier and more in control. Tricia works from Minnesota and brings nine years of experience to her work.
She combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports building a life aligned with personal values even when difficult feelings are present. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Tricia pays close attention to how attachment and past relationships shape current struggles.
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect trust and safety. She uses a client-centered stance, listening first and tailoring the work to what the individual needs most. People often come for help with trauma, abuse, anger, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, ADHD, and parenting stress.
Tricia describes the work as collaborative - she helps set goals and suggests practical exercises to practice between sessions. Conversations are direct but compassionate, and progress is tracked in small, concrete steps. Her background includes a range of clinical settings across nine years, offering experience with both short-term problem-solving and longer-term emotional work.
Sessions are offered in English and run via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How her approaches translate to online work
Tricia often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values and taking meaningful actions even when hard emotions are present; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and parenting stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tricia discusses goals and preferences with each person and makes a plan together. She may blend ACT, CBT, and client-centered listening so the plan fits the person’s needs and day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and interactive skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a break from work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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