About Jennifer
Jennifer Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than three decades in social work. She practices in Utah and focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her approach is warm and direct, inviting honest talk while also encouraging steps toward change.
She creates a calm space where people can be vulnerable without judgment. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Background and approach
Jennifer listens for patterns in relationships and daily life, then helps people try new ways of relating and coping. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Smith College and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah. She has worked across the United States and also teaches at the college level.
That mix of clinical work and teaching shapes a thoughtful, experienced perspective. Jennifer often blends approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on attachment work, emotionally focused methods, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and client-centered techniques.
Together these methods help address intimacy, communication, sexual concerns, and lasting emotional patterns. Many clients come for relationship or sexual wellness concerns such as communication problems, infidelity, commitment worries, sexual function issues, or exploring non-monogamy and kink. She also helps individuals facing life changes, career stress, low self-esteem, anger, and process addictions.
Jennifer aims to guide clients toward more balance and greater satisfaction in their lives.
How attachment and emotionally focused work translates online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to notice those patterns and try different ways of relating, which can help with commitment issues and communication problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions in relationships and helps partners or individuals name feelings and respond differently; this approach can be useful for intimacy struggles, infidelity, or rebuilding trust. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety or cravings.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them over time based on what works in sessions and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let body language and facial cues guide the work, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing helps bring clarity. These formats make it easier to keep continuity when schedules or locations change and allow licensed professionals to provide consistent care without requiring travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English