Ingrid Johnson
Kind, practical counseling for everyday stress
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ingrid
Ingrid Johnson is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what is causing stress. Sessions aim to identify small, doable changes clients can try between meetings.
Ingrid presents herself as a calm partner who helps people sort through life’s problems and find clearer steps forward. Her work blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools. Client-Centered Therapy means she follows the person’s lead and helps them make choices that fit their life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Ingrid also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and the Gottman Method when those tools match a person’s needs. With 21 years as an LPC, she has trained in stress and anxiety techniques and practical coping strategies.
She aims to build on strengths clients already have, and to teach skills for handling pressure, mood shifts, or relationship strains. Communication skills and problem-solving are common focuses. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in Texas as well as international clients.
She typically responds to messages in the evening, though response times can vary. Outside of work she enjoys jogging and walking her dog. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Ingrid describes therapy as a partnership where she helps clients test ideas and adjust plans until they fit real life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ingrid combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make steady changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s goals while building a trusting relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce stress and improve daily functioning.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when needed to teach emotion regulation and coping skills for intense feelings. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which approach or mix of approaches fits best. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs and goals evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, keep continuity during life changes, and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and skill-building to work well through these formats, letting people try different ways of connecting until they find what works.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point