About Annie
Dr. Annie Johansson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices in Minnesota and helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD.
Her manner is warm and respectful while also offering honest challenges when needed. She often begins by listening to what matters most and learning how symptoms show up in daily life. Dr.
Johansson uses clear, practical strategies that can be tried between sessions.
Background and approach
She blends methods so work in therapy fits each person's goals and rhythms. Her background includes work with people affected by trauma, emotional abuse, and substance use. That experience shapes how she supports people who are coping with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, or life transitions.
She pays attention to how early relationships and attachment patterns influence current struggles. Sessions may include skill building from cognitive behavioral therapy, story-focused work from narrative therapy, and trauma-focused interventions when appropriate. She aims to make therapeutic tasks concrete - for example, trying behavioral experiments, reframing unhelpful thoughts, or revisiting difficult memories with structured techniques.
People who do best with her style often want both practical tools and space to reflect on life meaning. Dr. Johansson partners with clients to set clear, achievable goals and to track progress over time.
Online approaches that focus on coping and recovery
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people notice patterns in closeness, trust, and caregiving so they can try new, healthier ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches straightforward skills like testing unhelpful beliefs and building new habits to reduce anxiety, manage ADHD-related challenges, or shift low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Johansson collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will try techniques together, check what works, and adjust plans based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer discussions. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Chat and messaging are useful for shorter updates, practice between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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