April Johnson (she/her)

I am well versed in family conflict therapy techniques. I utilize IFS, and help family members see each other's version of events. Solutions for family conflict are often complex, and involve communication and understanding from all sides. I help my clients learn how to talk to one another, how to have disagreements while being respectful, and techniques for keeping communication open and honest.

Anxiety is one of my specialties, after dealing with it myself for 30+ years. Therapeutic techniques I utilize for handling anxiety include CBT and skills based techniques. Cognitive behavioral therapy is useful because it gives an anxious mind simple, repeatable, and direct techniques to utilize when your mind is on the run. These techniques will be practiced in and outside of therapy sessions, so you don't even have to think about them, just do them and see results.

Having struggled with undiagnosed ADHD for the majority of my adult life, I have learned an excessive amount of techniques to help people with ADHD manage the tiny little things no one talks about. I have techniques, tips, tricks, and unusual solutions to the awful ways ADHD messes with the mind.

Narrative therapy is the process of examining the "story" of you, and your "story's" impacts on you. This typically looks like listening to your life's story, finding places where your life wasn't what you thought it should be, or where someone or something has happened to you, and deciding what meaning you want to get from that situation. It involves redefining where your life has taken you, and what you actually want or wanted from that situation.

Eclectic therapy is basically the idea that I as your therapist, use many different types of therapeutic techniques, that don't all fit into one brand of therapy. I use techniques from other types of therapy, such as IFS and existential, without doing every single technique from those therapies. Sometimes, you need to have an existential conversation without spending dozens of hours going through the entire therapy technique.

CBT is a collection of techniques, processes, and thought changing systems, all designed to change the way your brain responds in specific situations. This is one of the few therapy systems that assign you homework. You'll leave session with a technique to try when you're feeling a certain way, or when you're in a specific situation, you'll try it, and report back. Or you'll be assigned a task to do, such as writing your thoughts out, and we'll decode them when you come back.