About Latina
Latina Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan with six years of direct practice. She focuses on helping people address addictions, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and the strain that comes with big life changes. Latina aims to make the first step into therapy feel achievable and respectful.
She creates an open space for people to talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions are straightforward and grounded in listening first.
Background and approach
From there she helps build practical steps to manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, or challenges tied to parenting and caregiving. Latina uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on strategies that help people better understand their patterns, manage intense emotions, and change unhelpful thoughts.
Over time these methods support clearer choices and steadier routines around sleep, substance use, and daily coping. Her background includes work with concerns such as bipolar disorder, depression, compassion fatigue, and relationship stress like abandonment or blended family issues. She also assists people dealing with grief, guilt, isolation, and problems connected to substance use.
Clients can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Latina helps set goals together and adjusts practical tools to fit real life. She welcomes people who are ready to try steady, manageable steps toward feeling more in control and more connected.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice how early connections shape current relationships and reactions. It is useful for those who struggle with abandonment, trust, or repeating relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier routines. This can be especially helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and some addiction-related habits.Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals and daily challenges and work with the person to try methods that fit their needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients help shape their care throughout treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow for a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between scheduled meetings. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences while keeping focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English