About Naeemah
Naeemah Johnson is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She meets people where they are and works alongside them to reach practical goals. Her approach is collaborative and focused on what the client wants to change.
She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, stress, addictions, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem, career stress, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How Naeemah works
Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, body image, and commitment or codependency problems. Her style is strength-based and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes self-awareness, acceptance, and openness while using structured methods that have evidence behind them.
Together with each person she builds a treatment plan with realistic, measurable goals. Naeemah uses a range of approaches to match a person's needs, drawing on cognitive and emotion-focused methods. Sessions are flexible and aimed at practical changes people can use in daily life.
She pays attention to cultural context and aims to be responsive rather than prescriptive. Clients can expect steady, goal-oriented work that balances support with practical skills. The focus is on improving how people feel and function day to day, and on strengthening important relationships and roles in life.
Naeemah lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Naeemah works with
The areas below are the ones Naeemah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It centers on clarifying values and taking committed action toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It can help people who want clearer boundaries, safer closeness, and better relationship skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That choice may shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls make it possible to read facial cues and have longer conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick skills practice, or flexible communication between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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