About Annie
Dr. Annie Johansson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices in Minnesota and offers support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship strain.
Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people find clearer footing when problems feel overwhelming. She draws on a mix of methods to match each person's needs. Sessions often include cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas help untangle relationship patterns that keep causing pain. Dr. Johansson also uses trauma-focused approaches when past harm affects daily life.
This can include work that helps reduce distress from memories and rebuild a sense of safety in relationships. Motivational interviewing is used when people are figuring out changes around substance use or other habits. Her style is warm and direct.
She aims to be respectful and to challenge gently when that helps progress. Treatment is tailored - she adjusts pace and focus so goals feel reachable. People come to work on parenting stress, ADHD-related challenges, life transitions, anger, or low self-esteem.
She also supports those coping with adoption and foster care issues, family of origin concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. The emphasis is on practical steps and clearer choices for everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change recurring ways they connect with others. Online sessions can use talk work and exercises to shift these patterns and improve emotional closeness and boundaries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In telehealth sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new responses, and using short between-session exercises to build new habits for anxiety and depression.
EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that helps reduce the emotional charge of troubling memories. When used online it can involve guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation alongside safe processing of past events, adapted to each person's pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Johansson collaborates with each person to decide which methods best match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she may combine techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work after life changes.
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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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