About Johanna
Johanna Lopez takes a straightforward, person-first approach to counseling. She listens carefully, offers thoughtful feedback, and draws on decades of experience to help people facing hard moments. Johanna is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Wisconsin with 35 years working in schools, community programs, and clinical settings.
She began her career as a middle school teacher and then became a school guidance counselor. That time in schools taught her how to talk with kids and families about everyday struggles.
Background and approach
Later she provided in-home work with teens who had legal system involvement and supported Medicaid families with practical skills like budgeting and parenting. Johanna blends several approaches to meet each person where they are. She listens more than she talks and tailors the pace to what the client needs.
Sessions typically focus on clear, practical steps as well as deeper reflection when helpful. People consult her about a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy difficulties, addiction, sleep and eating issues, self-esteem, career changes, and ADHD.
She also has additional focus in adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, and end-of-life counseling. Her training includes a master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a certificate focused on Mental Health and the Older Adult from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Johanna emphasizes compassion and honest feedback while supporting clients to set and reach practical goals.
How Johanna’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your perspective. Sessions aim to give you space to tell your story while the therapist reflects and helps you find your own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Johanna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and may combine methods to fit the situation. Together you will decide whether to try a slower, reflective approach or a more skills-focused plan, and adjust as you go.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation when travel or scheduling is difficult. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a quick message is more convenient. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward meaningful change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English