LCSW-C, LCSW

Maryland, Virginia, Alaska

Jenna Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She has experience in individual therapy, telehealth, crisis support, family advocacy, military-connected care, health care settings, and social work leadership. She is independently licensed in Maryland, Virginia, and Alaska.

Jenna has worked across clinical, military-connected, community, and health care settings, supporting adolescents, adults, families, and individuals navigating complex life transitions. Her background includes telehealth therapy, crisis support, family advocacy, medical and pediatric care environments, and program leadership.

Jenna’s broader training in public policy and palliative care helps shape the way she understands people in context. She looks at the full picture of a client’s life, including relationships, family dynamics, health concerns, work and school pressures, cultural expectations, grief, and major life transitions. She is also beginning PhD studies focused on family estrangement in health care settings, which reflects her interest in how relationships, loss, illness, and systems can affect emotional well-being.

Jenna takes a holistic view of care, recognizing that healing is shaped by the whole person: mind, body, relationships, identity, history, environment, meaning, and daily life. Her work is grounded in evidence-based practice while also honoring intuition, lived experience, personal values, and the deeper patterns that shape how people move through the world.

Approach:

Jenna uses a warm, collaborative, and practical clinical approach grounded in evidence-based care. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, dialectical behavior therapy skills, acceptance and commitment therapy, solution-focused practice, problem-solving therapy, strengths-based approaches, and trauma-informed care.

Her approach is integrative, person-centered, and systems-informed. She works with clients to understand not only what they are experiencing internally, but also how relationships, family roles, social expectations, work demands, health concerns, and larger systems may be shaping their stress, coping, and sense of self.

Jenna is especially interested in supporting clients through grief, caregiver stress, relational strain, identity development, military family transitions, anxiety, depression, moral distress, burnout, family estrangement, serious illness, and major life changes. She values steady support, honest and compassionate conversation, and the belief that healing often begins when people are given enough space to understand their own story.

Areas of expertise:

Anxiety
Depression
Grief and loss
Life transitions
Military and military family concerns
Caregiver stress
Relationship and family stress
Family estrangement
Serious illness and palliative care concerns
Trauma-informed care
Identity development
Women’s issues
Stress management
Crisis support
Professional stress and burnout
Chronic illness and medical adjustment
Moral distress