Dr. Anna Lísa Jóhannsdóttir, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist in California (PSY#31715) who specializes in working with children, youth, families and adults. She has a wealth of clinical experience ranging from her master’s level training at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York) to her doctoral program at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, where she obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology in 2017. Throughout her training, Anna Lísa has had the opportunity to support and advocate for children, youth, adults, and families from multi-level stressed communities in various clinical settings in New York City, the Bay Area, and Toronto, Canada. More specifically, Anna Lísa is passionate about and has focused her clinical work on supporting children, youth, and adults who are struggling to connect with and understand their experiences of both intergenerational and complex trauma, systemic oppression, life transitions, anxiety, and depression along with other mood related disorders. Anna Lísa believes therapy aims to improve communication and to increase ownership of ones’ strengths and vulnerabilities. She incorporates an understanding of the multiple systems impacting the individual that includes cultural systems, family systems, and the individual experience along with the sociopolitical atmosphere at the time. Her approach varies depending on the client and the clinical context however her clinical and assessment approach is centered around cultural sensitivity and social justice values. She believes the process of witnessing and acknowledging pain and joining the client in the process towards their personal healing is central. Regardless of the medium of therapy, she aims to actively collaborate with the client on a journey of heightened awareness of their lived experiences and for them to attune to their everyday needs.
Contact Dr. Anna Lísa Jóhannsdóttir, Psy.D
Phone: 510.603.7307
Email: drannalisa@journeypsy.com
Specialties:
- Complex trauma/PTSD
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Emotional Regulation
- Self/Identity development
- ADHD and learning challenges
- Parenting stress
- Life transitions
- Relationship difficulties
- Acculturation
- Psychodiagnostic/psychoeducational evaluations