Lia Johansen, LCSW

Lia is a licensed clinical social worker who is passionate about helping children, adolescents, and adults heal from trauma. Her practice offers a safe and non-judgmental space to address the lasting impacts of childhood abuse (physical, sexual, and emotional), neglect, domestic violence, and trauma in adulthood.

 

Lia utilizes an integrative, trauma-informed approach anchored in systems theory and attachment theory. As a certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist, she specializes in targeted trauma processing. Her approach is also Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed, incorporates Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) training concepts, as well as play-based and art-based interventions, providing a compassionate, well-rounded, and trauma-focused lens to support her work with children, adolescents, and adults.

 

Since 2012, Lia has practiced clinical social work in the Bay Area in settings such as in-patient, school-based, and community-based. She has also conducted hundreds of forensic interviews at the Children’s Interview Center in Contra Costa County. Lia earned her Bachelor of Science in Child and Family Development from San Diego State University and her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California.