About Tricia
Tricia Johnson uses a client-centered, acceptance-based approach to help people handle stressful life moments. She is a Minnesota LICSW with nine years of experience and a straightforward focus on practical steps. Tricia aims to make therapy a place where people can speak openly and feel heard.
She meets people with respect, warmth, and steady support. She works with parents and individuals facing family conflict, parenting strain, and grief. Her practice also addresses trauma and abuse, anger, anxiety, depression, and challenges of attention and focus such as ADHD.
How Tricia works
Tricia includes work on self-esteem, coping with life changes, and stress management in sessions. Her style blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based and Dialectical approaches. That mix helps people notice difficult thoughts, learn new behaviors, and repair strained relationships.
Sessions often focus on small, doable changes a person can use between meetings. Tricia draws on nine years of clinical work across varied settings. She brings that practical experience to conversations about communication problems, codependency, commitment issues, and blended family concerns.
She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care, abandonment, caregiver stress, and aging-related questions. People can expect straightforward talk, skill practice, and collaborative goal setting. Tricia invites clients to set the pace and shape the work.
Her aim is to help people leave sessions feeling a little more capable than when they arrived.
Tricia lists 13 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Tricia works with
The areas below are the ones Tricia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values-based action so clients can make meaningful changes even when worry or grief is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress when people want tools they can use between sessions.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Tricia will work with each person to test methods and settle on what fits their goals and preferences. That might mean trying ACT practices for values-driven action, adding CBT skill work, or focusing on attachment patterns depending on what comes up in conversation.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or texting works well for brief check-ins or steady support between appointments. These options offer flexibility so people can choose the format that best suits their schedule and comfort.
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