About Tricia
Tricia Johnson is a licensed independent clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate stressful life changes and emotional challenges. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to sessions and aims to make it easier to talk about hard things. Tricia has nine years of experience in mental health and uses straightforward, practical strategies to support progress.
Her work centers on common concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, and ongoing stress.
Background and approach
She also helps with family issues, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD-related challenges. People come to her for help after trauma or abuse, and for support managing complicated emotions. Tricia draws on a few core approaches in session.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior. She combines this with acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action. Attachment-informed work is used to understand relationship patterns and improve communication.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Tricia listens closely, reflects what she hears, and offers exercises or small experiments between meetings. She encourages clear goals and checks in on progress so changes feel manageable.
Her practice is based in Minnesota and she provides services in English. Tricia aims to meet people where they are and to work at a pace that fits each person’s life and needs.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Tricia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps clarify what matters most and build small, value-driven steps toward a better routine and more meaningful goals.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early patterns influence current relationships and communication. Together these approaches give practical skills and insight for managing emotions, family tensions, parenting stress, and ADHD-related challenges. Choosing the right mix is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful before trying specific techniques.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and role practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, coaching between sessions, or when frequent brief touchpoints are helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the best fit is found.
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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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