Healing at the pace your nervous system can trust.

Erica Johnson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, educator, and founder of Affinity Counseling and Affinity Pathfinder. Her work is shaped by a lifelong curiosity about how people survive, adapt, and make meaning in difficult systems—and how often sensitive, thoughtful people are misunderstood in the process.

Her early experiences in mental health settings, combined with years of clinical practice, extensive global travel, and creative professional work in theatre, taught her that many people are not broken. They are overwhelmed, misattuned to, or carrying more than anyone was meant to carry alone.

Erica brings this understanding into every therapeutic relationship. She specializes in trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatic approaches, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Brainspotting, and polyvagal-informed regulation.

For Erica, therapy is not about fixing people or having the right answers. It is about creating conditions where clients feel safe enough to tell the truth, reconnect with their bodies, and return to their own inner wisdom.

She is especially committed to working with people who have felt unseen, pathologized, or reduced by systems meant to help – offering care that is steady, relational, and grounded in both science and lived experience.

Witnessing clients reclaim choice, connection, and self-trust is the heart of her work. She considers it a privilege to walk alongside people as they come back to themselves.