About Audrey
Audrey Johnsen is an LCSW practicing in Colorado with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like anxiety, stress, grief, career questions, and parenting challenges. Her manner is warm and engaging, and she aims to build trust so people feel comfortable talking about what matters to them.
Before moving into independent practice she worked in higher education supporting young adults and in hospital settings as a medical social worker.
Background and approach
That background shaped her familiarity with end-of-life care, hospice issues, caregiver stress, and the needs of people facing chronic illness. She also helps with relationship strain, life transitions, and finding purpose in midlife. Her work combines client-centered listening with goal-focused techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused frameworks.
Sessions typically involve identifying what matters, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying practical steps that fit each person’s life. She uses motivational interviewing to support commitment when people want change but feel stuck. People can expect a collaborative process that balances understanding the past with clear plans for the present and future.
Audrey pays attention to both emotional concerns and everyday tasks like money, work, and caregiving demands. She supports people coping with loneliness, jealousy, forgiveness questions, fertility concerns, and communication problems. Audrey holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Gordon College and a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver.
She holds ND LCSW 6222 and CO LCSW 9927137. Sessions are offered in English and delivered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. In sessions the therapist encourages people to say what matters most and then reflects that back so goals become clearer. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, stress, and mild to moderate depression by teaching practical skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that suit the person’s life and adjust the plan as needed based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow for a typical therapy conversation when face-to-face interaction feels important. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, on-the-go ways to process thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, North Dakota
- Languages
- English