About Karin
Karin Johnson is a licensed master social worker with 21 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed take a first step toward change. Her manner is warm, steady, and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make sessions feel comfortable and conversational.
She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a bachelor’s degree in social work from Arizona State University.
Background and approach
Karin has worked in a variety of settings and with many concerns, so she draws on a broad clinical background to match what each person needs. Karin uses practical tools that people can try between sessions. She works on improving communication, setting healthy boundaries, and building skills for managing strong emotions.
She often provides worksheets and short exercises to support practice outside of appointments. Her approach blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with acceptance-based and attachment-focused work. She teaches mindfulness and grounding skills for stress, anxiety, trauma reactions, and sleep troubles.
Sessions are relaxed and interactive, with a focus on small, realistic goals that lead to change. Karin also supports people navigating relationship strain, grief, addiction, caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, and life transitions. She pays attention to family of origin issues, adoption and foster care backgrounds, and patterns that show up across relationships.
Her aim is to help people build coping strategies and more satisfying connections.
How Karin Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters to them; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying practical behavior changes to reduce distress and improve sleep or mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand and change how they connect with others, which can help with intimacy issues and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karin treats approach selection as a collaboration. She will listen to your goals and preferences, describe options, and try strategies together to see what helps most for your situation.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let you use visual cues for relationship work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a good fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing coaching, brief check-ins, or worksheet support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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