About Johanna
Johanna Lea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for painful feelings and life changes. Her style is practical and warm, aimed at helping people find steps that fit their day-to-day life.
She has 11 years of experience in social work and psychotherapy across different settings. Over the past several years she spent a lot of time supporting older adults and women, and she has also worked with children and adolescents earlier in her career.
Background and approach
Johanna brings a broad background to sessions and adapts her approach to each person's needs. In sessions she uses techniques from client-centered therapy to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used to manage intense emotions and stress. Johanna addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy questions, eating or sleeping problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and career-related issues. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue and bipolar mood challenges.
Her approach aims to be collaborative and goal-oriented, so each person helps set the pace. Sessions are practical and focused on what will help most right now. Johanna works with clients to develop skills they can use between meetings and to plan next steps that feel doable.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience and goals, which helps build a trusting working relationship even through video or chat. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises and homework to change patterns that keep anxiety or depression going. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping, which can be practiced and reviewed in session.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, tries different techniques, and adjusts methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which combination of strategies fits personal needs and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins and written tools between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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