Johanna Lea, LCSW

Johanna Lea is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She supports clients facing trauma, relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and struggles with substance use or eating and sleeping. Johanna uses straightforward, practical techniques to help people feel steadier in daily life.

She draws on eleven years of practice in Oklahoma. Her background includes work across age groups and a focus in recent years on older adults and women. That experience informs how she tailors short- and longer-term plans for each person.

Johanna blends approaches so sessions are clear and goal-oriented. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear when they fit a person’s goals.

In sessions she listens first and then suggests simple, doable strategies. People often leave with a few concrete skills to try between meetings. She also addresses practical areas like work stress, parenting strain, and career worries.

Her work is guided by a client-centered stance that keeps each person’s priorities central. Johanna aims to make therapy a collaborative process, adjusting pace and tools to fit what each person needs and hopes to change.

How Johanna's approaches translate to online care

Johanna often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety or depression. CBT sessions focus on clear goals, simple exercises, and practical steps clients can try between meetings.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT-style tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are a source of stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Johanna will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps the client make steady progress.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging makes it easy to share updates between appointments. These formats give flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.