About Johanna
Johanna Lopez is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 35 years of clinical experience in Wisconsin. She listens carefully and uses her background to guide people through hard moments. Johanna focuses on practical help and respects each person's pace and goals.
She holds a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the LPC credential. Johanna also completed a Certificate of Completion from the University of Wisconsin Madison focused on mental health and the older adult.
Background and approach
Those studies complement long years of hands-on work in schools and community settings. Early in her career she taught middle school for 15 years and then moved into school counseling, where she supported students one-on-one after class. Later she provided in-home therapy to teens who had encounters with the legal system, working with them both at school and at home.
She also worked with programs serving Medicaid families on parenting, budgeting, and everyday coping skills. Her approach is eclectic and client-centered. She listens more than she talks, asks questions, and offers reflections to help people see options.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, Jungian perspectives, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques when they fit an individual's needs. Johanna helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, ADHD, sleep and eating issues, and life changes. She aims to build a trusting relationship and move at a pace that feels right for each person.
Approaches for online work and practical support
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's pace to build trust and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce stress and anxiety and improve sleep and mood.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Johanna will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Together the client and therapist decide which methods to use and when to try something different.
Online sessions can take place as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is needed, and chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue support across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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