About Johanna
Johanna Anderson is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and ADHD. She often supports people dealing with self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, life transitions, and young adult concerns. Johanna uses straightforward language to make therapy feel easier to start.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies from UNC-Greensboro and a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Lee University.
How Johanna works
Johanna has five years of clinical experience working in community and college counseling settings. Those roles exposed her to a wide variety of presenting concerns and practical ways to help people move forward. Her sessions are collaborative and practical.
She listens first, then helps set clear, manageable goals. Johanna blends client-centered work with skill-based techniques so people leave sessions with ideas to try between appointments. Johanna uses several approaches depending on a person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, emotionally-focused methods for relationship and attachment concerns, and solution-focused strategies to build on strengths and quick wins.
Motivational interviewing is added when people need help finding internal motivation to make changes. She communicates plainly and treats each person as the expert on their life. The aim is steady progress - small changes that build into lasting improvement.
Johanna encourages people to take the first step and offers guidance along the way.
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What Johanna works with
The areas below are the ones Johanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people clarify their own goals and decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-focused work helps people notice feelings and connection patterns, which can be helpful for relationship and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Johanna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend which methods to focus on. This is a collaborative process so adjustments can be made as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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