Audrey Johnsen
Supportive LCSW offering practical, collaborative care
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Audrey
Audrey Johnsen is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on straightforward, practical support. She uses clear, collaborative methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, career questions, and parenting concerns. Audrey draws on 15 years of experience in higher education and hospital settings to offer steady, experienced care.
She practices in Colorado and works in English. Audrey learned social work through a Bachelor of Social Work from Gordon College and a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver, then gained clinical experience supporting young adults and working as a medical social worker.
Background and approach
In practice she leans on cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also uses solution-focused and client-centered methods to set concrete goals and center the person’s priorities. Sessions are warm and conversational.
Audrey aims to build trust quickly and help clients notice small, useful shifts. She often combines short-term goal work with skills for everyday coping. That can include simple strategies for handling grief, navigating career transitions, or managing stress and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes work with patients and caregivers in medical crises, hospice and end-of-life issues, and college-age students facing mental health challenges. She also addresses concerns such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, parenting, relationship strains, midlife change, and financial worry. Audrey invites clients to work together on clear steps forward.
She helps people look at the past, understand the present, and plan sensible next moves toward their goals.
How Audrey’s Approach Translates to Online Care
Audrey uses client-centered work to focus on each person’s priorities and values, helping the conversation stay grounded in what matters most. She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice small, concrete behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve coping. Finding the right approach is collaborative. Audrey will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then blend methods to match those needs. That might mean short-term action steps one week and skills practice the next, with the person guiding the pace and focus. Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels most helpful. Phone sessions offer a simpler option when screens are difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, planning between sessions, or reviewing strategies in real time. These formats provide flexibility so people can work on stress, grief, parenting issues, or career decisions without long commutes.Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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