About Tricia
Tricia Johnson is a licensed independent clinical social worker who focuses on anxiety alongside related concerns like stress, grief, and depression. She brings nine years of experience to her work and aims to make the first step easier for people who are worried or overwhelmed. She helps people sort through family conflict, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and anger.
Sessions are conversational and grounded in real-life steps. Tricia works to make the space calm and nonjudgmental so people can talk honestly about what they are facing.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical tools with attention to relationships and emotions. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people choose actions that match their values.
Attachment-focused perspectives guide work on relationship patterns and early wounds that still affect daily life. Dialectical skill-building is available for managing strong emotions and improving coping. Client-centered principles keep the person and their goals at the center of care.
Tricia practices in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English. She supports people working through life changes, self-esteem struggles, coping with ADHD, and issues around adoption, caregiving, body image, and communication. She emphasizes kindness, respect, and encouragement while helping people move toward the goals they set.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps when worry, avoidance, or low motivation are getting in the way of life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. This approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and early patterns that shape how people connect and respond emotionally; it can help with family conflict and ongoing relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process lets people combine skills training, values-based actions, and relational insight to match their needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue consistent work toward personal goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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