About
Laura L.C. Johnson, MA, MBA, LMFT, LPCC, is an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist and a Certified Cognitive Behavior Therapist. She is the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Silicon Valley/San Jose in Campbell, CA. Laura offers online video therapy to clients all over California. The CBT Center specialized in working with anxiety disorders, OCD and personality disorders.
Laura has a passion for helping her clients make lasting changes in their lives. Laura is intensively trained in evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavior therapy and exposure therapies for symptom reduction in individuals with anxiety and OCD and in schema therapy for chronic depression and anxiety as well as borderline, avoidant and dependent personality disorders. Laura uses schema therapy to address the underlying personality issues that maintain anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive personality traits and behaviors and to encourage personality change to reduce vulnerability to future relapses. Laura works with adults, children, teens and their families.
Laura completed the Advanced Intensive Schema Therapy training program in 2015 with the Schema Therapy Institutes of New York and New Jersey and became certified as an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist in 2017. She has continued intensive training in schema therapy over the years since getting certified.
Laura is certified in cognitive behavior therapy by the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, a graduate of the year long extramural program at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, intensively trained in dialectical behavior therapy by Behavioral Tech and completed three certificate programs in OCD treatment through the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania and the OCD Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Training Institute.
Laura received her master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University. In addition, Laura has a unique background as a psychotherapist with a business degree from Columbia University. She has hands-on management experience in the corporate world and often provides therapy to professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. Laura is dual-licensed in California as both a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.