About Ingrid
Ingrid Johnson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Her style is calm and practical, focused on small steps that can make daily life easier.
She uses a person-centered approach that starts by honoring the client's own knowledge about their life. That means the conversation begins with the client's goals and priorities, and Ingrid helps map a path toward those goals.
Background and approach
She also brings cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. In sessions she works on skills for managing stress, improving sleep and eating patterns, and coping with grief or trauma. She helps people with ADHD symptoms, addiction concerns, and work-related burnout by breaking problems into manageable pieces and practicing new ways of reacting.
Communication problems, commitment concerns, and issues tied to adoption or blended families are also within her focus areas. With 21 years of experience, Ingrid combines practical strategies and steady support. She often offers homework between sessions so changes build over time.
Messages are typically answered in the evening, though response times vary when she is with other responsibilities. Outside of work she enjoys jogging and walking her dog, and she is married with two daughters. That everyday perspective informs a down-to-earth approach in the counseling room.
Online approaches that focus on daily coping and connection
Ingrid commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on the person's own goals and experiences, with the therapist offering listening and reflection to help people clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions begin by identifying priorities and then adapt over time as progress and challenges emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for face-to-face conversation and relationship work, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short skills practice, or keeping a steady thread of support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving forward from different locations and schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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