Audrey Johnsen, LCSW

Audrey Johnsen is an LCSW in Colorado who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people make changes. She brings 15 years of clinical experience working in higher education and hospital settings. Audrey focuses on concrete goals like managing anxiety, coping with life changes, and navigating grief and caregiving roles.

Her sessions are warm and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people choose small, realistic steps that add up. Conversations cover current problems, useful skills, and what a person wants to do differently moving forward.

Audrey often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with solution-focused work. That means she helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of responding. She also emphasizes clear, short-term goals so progress is easier to measure.

She has worked with people facing end-of-life and hospice concerns, medical crises, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Audrey also supports those dealing with career transitions, parenting strain, relationship trouble, loneliness, and life-purpose questions.

Sessions are practical and collaborative. She helps people build coping skills for stress, manage compassion fatigue, and sort through financial or midlife pressures. Audrey aims to help each person identify what matters most and take steady steps toward it.

If someone prefers a straightforward, goal-oriented approach with empathetic listening, Audrey offers that blend. Her background in medical social work and higher education informs a flexible, person-centered practice that centers real-life problems and solutions.

CBT and Solutions Delivered Online

Audrey uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce distress. CBT techniques are good for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing chronic health challenges by focusing on doable changes in thinking and routine.

She also uses client-centered and solution-focused methods that emphasize listening, collaboration, and short-term goal setting. Client-centered work means the conversation starts with what matters most to the person. Solution-focused work narrows attention to small, practical steps that can be tried between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Audrey reviews goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. She works together with clients to pick strategies that match their needs and life circumstances, and she checks in on what is or isn’t helping so plans can change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or try brief coaching in between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, and health-related constraints.