I’m Teva Johnstone—Licensed Therapist

The current focus of my work is anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder in the adult, perinatal, and teen populations. My office is in Southern California, and I see people for online therapy all over the state- from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara to San Francisco.

I receive regular consultation in OCD treatment with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) from an expert clinician and professor in NYC. I have completed Postpartum Support International’s training on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and advance my education with courses from the International OCD Foundation and Cognitive Behavioral Institute.

I have worked with adults and children for about a decade in a variety of settings, including schools, hospital-based new parent resource center, foster care, and private practice. My expertise is in Maternal Child Mental Health, with a clinical focus in parental depression and raising children with “spirited” or highly sensitive temperaments. In recent years I have been consulting with parents who wish to promote optimal psychosocial development by opting out of a phone-based childhood and opting in to values-based, intentional parenting.

Although much of my experience has been with women and children, I enjoy supporting men and see many fathers in my practice.

I mentor early career therapists and provide clinical supervision to Associates in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. I have been licensed to practice psychotherapy independently since 2021 and have worked in the field (including graduate school internships) since 2011.