About Maggie
Maggie Johnson helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, anger, or problems with substance use and mood. She is a licensed professional counselor clinical center (LPCC) in Minnesota and brings nine years of clinical experience to her work. She talks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Maggie uses clear, goal-oriented strategies to reduce symptoms and build daily routines that feel manageable. She often combines thinking-based tools with mindfulness practices to interrupt unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are interactive and focused on small changes that add up over time. When trauma, grief, or relationship strain comes up, she helps people name what they are experiencing and find concrete ways to cope. For people facing career stress, parenting strain, or caregiver fatigue, she prioritizes skills that fit a busy life.
She also supports those dealing with eating, sleeping, and intimacy-related concerns. Maggie draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy ideas. That combination lets her adapt to each person’s pace and aims.
She listens for strengths while also offering direct strategies to try. People who choose her work with someone who keeps things straightforward. Expect short-term tools, discussions about what’s getting in the way, and step-by-step planning for change.
Sessions aim to be useful from the first few meetings onward.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns related to substance use. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple breathing or noticing exercises that reduce reactivity and support emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals, history, and what feels workable day to day. Plans are adjusted over time if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, try brief skills between sessions, or arrange quick touchpoints without scheduling a full call.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English