Laura Johnson, LPC

Laura Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. She brings five years of clinical experience to interactions and focuses on helping people move through stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and grief. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she emphasizes working together to set goals that fit each person’s life.

She draws on several therapy approaches to tailor care to individual needs. Sessions start with listening and building a plan that feels practical and doable. Laura aims to make sessions straightforward and manageable, so clients can use what they learn between meetings.

Her background includes work with people facing custody and placement questions, addiction-related concerns, court and jail involvement, and service members and their families. She has experience with group and individual formats and has run psycho-educational groups. This range informs how she adapts interventions to different life situations.

In therapy she emphasizes understanding attachment patterns and building skills for everyday challenges. Techniques from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based approaches are combined with a client-centered frame to keep the focus on the person’s values and choices. Dialectical skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.

Outside of work she spends time with family and her dogs, enjoying the camper and off-road trails. She encourages people to reach out when they are ready to talk about practical steps toward feeling better.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Laura uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where choosing actions matters more than eliminating every uncomfortable thought.

Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationships shape current patterns in close connections. This approach helps people understand repeated relationship struggles and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and clearer.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust plans as progress or obstacles appear.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also supports continuing work between in-person visits and lets people practice skills in the settings where they live and work.