About Naeemah
Naeemah Johnson is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She centers sessions on collaboration and helps people move toward the goals they set. Clients can expect a straightforward, nonjudgmental style that values strength, cultural awareness, and openness.
She focuses on common concerns such as anxiety and stress, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and problems with self-esteem. She also helps people facing work-related strain, relationship conflicts, breakups, parenting stress, and addiction-related struggles.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to intimacy-related issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends practical, evidence-based methods with a client-centered stance. That means conversations aim to identify what matters to the person and then build workable steps toward change.
Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions and new ways of handling difficult thoughts and behaviors. She works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging concerns, chronic medical conditions, and caregiving stress. Naeemah also supports people exploring identity and sexual expression, including kink and alternative sex culture, and those navigating blended family dynamics.
Treatment plans are developed together with clear, realistic goals. Naeemah uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to help people build coping skills and reconnect to what matters most to them.
How different approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful thought patterns and building healthier habits, useful for depression, anxiety, and stress-related struggles.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. These tools are helpful when strong emotions, anger, or self-destructive behaviors make daily life hard.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That process can include trying techniques from more than one approach and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging work well for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit into varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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