About Ingrid
Ingrid Johnson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strains, or life transitions. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for a worried parent or busy adult.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her, believing people usually know their own needs best.
Background and approach
Ingrid listens first, then helps clients sort through daily challenges and decide what practical next steps feel right. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to build small, doable habits that ease stress.
Over two decades of work have exposed her to a wide range of concerns, including trauma and grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, caregiver stress, attachment and blended family issues, and caregiver or aging-related worries. She also supports people facing identity or LGBT-related stress, work and career shifts, and problems with communication or boundaries.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on real-life tools - coping strategies, communication skills, and problem-solving plans. Ingrid often suggests homework that fits into busy days so progress continues between sessions. Her approach blends listening with practical steps to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.
Outside of work she enjoys jogging and walking her dog, and she is married with two daughters. Prospective clients should expect a collaborative relationship in which the therapist and client work together toward clear, tangible goals.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Ingrid blends person-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior methods to help people manage day-to-day challenges. Person-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person's priorities and experiences and creating room for them to guide the work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Ingrid works together with each client to figure out what fits best based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. That collaborative planning may combine elements from different approaches to address immediate problems and longer-term change.
Online therapy can make that collaboration easier to fit into real life. Video calls work well for full sessions that mimic in-person meetings. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option and can be easier when screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skills practice, and follow-up between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can be scheduled around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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What this therapist 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
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