About Naeemah
Naeemah Johnson is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Washington. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and meets people where they are. Naeemah focuses on practical goals and helps clients set steps they can actually use between sessions.
She works with adults dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and stress. She also supports people coping with relationship conflict, breakups, work-related strain, and low self-worth.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus when attention and organization are part of the concern. Naeemah uses approaches that help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful patterns, and strengthen relationships. Sessions emphasize self-awareness, acceptance, and small, realistic changes.
She favors a strengths-based, nonjudgmental style that adapts to each person's needs. Her work is outcome-oriented and draws on therapies that encourage action, skill-building, and emotional understanding. Together with clients she builds treatment plans with clear, achievable goals.
The aim is to improve daily functioning and make steps toward a more fulfilling life. People who value practical tools and steady support tend to do well with her approach. She offers straightforward guidance, listening first and then helping craft strategies that fit each person's routine and values.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small, committed steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Naeemah will discuss different methods, try techniques in session, and adjust based on what fits the client's goals and preferences. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to use and how to pace work over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and do deeper skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for ongoing coaching, brief check-ins, or practicing skills between synchronous sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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