About Audrey
Audrey Johnsen is an LCSW based in Colorado with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, and parenting struggles. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people find clear next steps when life feels overwhelming.
She began working in higher education supporting young adults and later served as a medical social worker in hospital settings. That mix of campus and medical experience shaped how she helps people manage crises and major life changes.
Background and approach
She has a Bachelor of Social Work from Gordon College and a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside solution-focused work. That means talking through current patterns and testing small, practical changes.
She helps people set realistic goals, notice unhelpful thinking, and try simple strategies to reduce stress and anxiety. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses when people are weighing big decisions or trying to change behaviors. The style is collaborative and respectful, helping people find their own reasons for making changes rather than prescribing a single path.
Audrey also supports people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional fallout after loss or medical crises. She helps with relationship and communication problems, money stress, and questions about life purpose or midlife transitions. Her work aims to make manageable progress, one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Audrey commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce stress and anxiety. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on immediate goals and practical steps to create progress, often in a few focused conversations.She also uses motivational interviewing when clients are weighing decisions or want help finding internal motivation. That approach invites people to talk through their reasons for change and to set their own priorities. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to decide which approach fits their goals and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth or schedules make a video harder. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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