About Delsa
Dr. Delsa Johnson-Waddell is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in Utah who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, and ADHD-related concerns. She offers a direct, collaborative style and expects honesty so each person’s goals guide the work.
Her approach blends practical tools with attention to individual strengths. She has practiced since 2008 and also worked as a life and success coach starting in 2002. Over 13 years of counseling experience have included work with depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction, trauma and abuse, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, and issues related to intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
She also helps parents with behavior-management strategies for children. Her sessions combine client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises. She uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, hypnotherapy, and expressive methods when those approaches seem helpful.
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs in the moment rather than a rigid plan. Dr. Johnson-Waddell describes therapy as a team effort: the therapist brings clinical skills and the client brings knowledge about their own life.
She focuses on building coping skills, boosting self-esteem, and creating realistic plans to manage change. Practical homework and short-term coaching goals are options when they fit someone’s needs. Clients can expect plainspoken guidance, step-by-step strategies, and attention to both emotions and behavior.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking and more manageable days. She accepts clients in English and works with people located in Utah as well as international clients by online methods.
How Dr. Johnson-Waddell Uses Therapeutic Methods Online
Dr. Johnson-Waddell commonly blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the person’s priorities so clients set the pace and goals. CBT focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, with exercises you can try between sessions to see steady progress.She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma processing is appropriate; EMDR involves guided attention and memory work to reduce the intensity of painful memories and related reactions. Together these approaches allow work on both everyday coping and deeper trauma responses depending on each person’s needs.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the first conversations. The therapist will collaborate with you to choose methods that match your goals, comfort level, and pace. That collaborative process includes checking in regularly and adjusting techniques as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you have full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler way to fit a session into a break, chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, and travel while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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