Compassionate Acceptance with Choices for Change
Gail’s 20 years of experience in mental health have led her to look deeply into the mind-body connection. She has learned that mind and body continually influence one another. Focus on the body’s clues and life’s experience leads to understanding and the opportunity to make healthy choices. She is a caring and effective therapist.
Gail has a masters degree in social work, is a member of NASW, and is certified by the Academy of Certified Social Workers.
Group Therapy Sessions
- Skills training using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Grief work for miscarriage
Individual Therapy Sessions teaching and modeling skills for:
- Balancing work and home life
- Fitting in socially
- Helping with mood disorders (depression, bipolar)
- Improving the symptoms of personality disorders
- Alleviating hopelessness and exhaustion
- Decreasing worry, anxiety, panic, posttraumatic stress
- Testing and coaching for Attention Deficit Disorder
- Assisting in grief work
- Helping with Postpartum Depression
Tools and perspectives
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness)
- TOVA© ADD testing
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for handling difficult memories and events
- Thought Field Therapy for early relief of symptoms
- Hypnosis for strengthening of purpose and symptom relief (Washingtonian article on The Health Benefits of Hypnosis)
- Teaching the rationale for adopting specific skills and treatments, making it easier to stay the course
Trouble fitting in, Postpartum depression, grief, family of origin issues, issues of self-harm, trauma, anxiety/panic, borderline personality, bipolar, depression, ADD, postpartum depression.
Recent Articles by Gail Johnson
- Anxiety – Many Forms, Many Skills - May 26th, 2011
