About Johanna
Johanna Westin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She practices from Illinois and aims to make the first steps toward help feel straightforward and manageable. Johanna draws on a mix of practical approaches to meet each person's needs.
She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most. She also brings tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Johanna works
Her style is down-to-earth and calm. Johanna emphasizes connection and trust, and she works at a pace people can handle. Sessions focus on concrete skills for coping, managing strong emotions, and improving communication.
People come to her for a wide range of concerns, including grief, parenting strain, relationship stress, depression, anger, and work-related compassion fatigue. She also offers support for panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and a history of sexual assault and abuse. Johanna has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has experience with individual, family, and group formats.
She starts where each person is and helps them set realistic goals. The focus is on steady progress and practical steps toward feeling better. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into someone’s life and what to expect during early sessions.
If you want a steady, respectful approach with focused tools, Johanna may be a good fit.
Johanna lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Johanna’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person in front of the therapist. It helps people feel heard and guides the work around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Johanna will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit treatment into busy lives. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework help, or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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