About Karin
Karin Johnson is a licensed master social worker with 21 years of experience helping people move forward when life feels stuck. She greets new visitors with warmth and a calm, interactive style. Karin aims to make therapy feel approachable and non-judgmental so people can speak openly about what’s hard.
She works with adults on concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD. Karin trained in social work at Arizona State University and earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Background and approach
Over two decades she has provided support in many settings and used a range of practical tools to help people cope. Her clinical toolbox includes cognitive-behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and setting achievable goals.
Karin helps people develop skills such as clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and better sleep routines. She often uses worksheets and short exercises to practice skills between meetings. Her approach blends acceptance and action.
Clients work on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while also learning ways to accept difficult feelings and move toward what matters. The pace is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. Karin also supports people facing life transitions, caregiving stress, complicating medical issues, and challenges tied to attachment or family of origin.
The work is practical, with an emphasis on small, steady changes that build confidence. If someone wants a respectful, steady partner in that process, Karin offers that steady presence.
How Karin blends therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small, committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation-related struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and anger management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karin will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and everyday life. That might mean mixing ACT with CBT tools or adding attachment-based perspectives for relationship or family-of-origin concerns.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share updates between sessions, try brief coaching, or get quick tools during a busy day. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, and travel routines while keeping the focus on consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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