Maddie’s Therapeutic Approach

Maddie Johnson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist. She works from a systemic perspective and through an attachment lens with a belief that our upbringing impacts how we function and orient ourselves in the world today. Maddie is relational in nature which is why she stresses the importance of comfort in the therapeutic relationship. Maddie engages clients with humor, empathy and curiosity. 

Maddie works from a perspective of cultural humility and is trauma informed. Integrating mind-body and experiential approaches, Maddie knows that healing is not limited to talking through something, its about moving holistically through the experience of something. Maddie encourages clients to check in with their bodies and notice sensations. Maddie believes therapy is an opportunity for someone to get to know themselves better and find strength in their voice.

As a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist, Maddie utilizes the creative process to support self-exploration and promote play and build skills such as frustration tolerance, somatic connection and healing. Sometimes words are not enough, thats when Maddie may suggest engaging in the art process. And no, you do not have to be an artist to do art!

Trainings that have informed the practice

• The Adler Graduate School, Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy as well as Art Therapy, February 2014

• The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, 30.5 hour training. October 2015 

• The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel van der Kolk, 2 Day Trauma Conference, November 2017

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy Training, Level 1, 21.5 hours in June 2018

• Art Therapy and Neuroscience by Juliet King, September 2018

• Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) and Sensorimotor Expressive Arts Therapy, by Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, and Elizabeth Warson, PhD, November 2021

• Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate, 60.5 hours

• Perinatal Mood Disorders, Components of Care, 2 day program April 2025