Dr. Breána D. Johnson PhD, LMFT is a licensed mental health practitioner, clinical scholar and small-business entrepreneur with over a decade of study in the field of psychology and marginalized mental health. Breána is a proud HBCU graduate and began her studies in psychology and human development at Howard University. She studied systems-based mental health at Hofstra University and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in marriage and family therapy in 2016.
Breána completed her doctoral degree in 2025 after completing her scholarly work on Black American women's mental health and professional and domestic labor. She holds a doctorate in Depth Psychology, specializing in Community, Indigenous, Liberation and Eco Psychologies. Breána specializes in marginalized mental health with a focus on labor exploitation in the United States. In addition to her private practice, Breána serves as an academic professor, teaching and training clinicians at the graduate level.
Breána's work explores the management of mental health while navigating modern Western systems, structures and society. Her methods aim to deconstruct narrative schemas and belief systems rooted in hyper productivity, individualism, perfectionism and idealistic success among other phenomena that undermine wellness, fulfillment and the pursuit of happiness.
Scope of Practice and Specialties
Breána is trained in classic systems theories, including Bowenian and Structural family therapies. She is an integrationist and eclectic in her use of CBT, Imago and Emotionally Focused therapeutic interventions for relational work. She leans toward a process-oriented style with a narrative and social constructionist approach to providing psychotherapy. Her role as a therapist includes that of the social change agent therefore, she advances anti-oppressive frameworks in her practice. She is somatically, mindfully and trauma informed, as well as LGBTQ, kink, non-monogamous, childfree and poly friendly.
Women's Mental Health
Breána ’s scope of practice focuses on women’s issues including but not limited to, self-care and mental health hygiene, mindfulness practice building, recovery from traumatic relationships, addressing burn out syndrome and imposter phenomena among high achieving women. Breána enjoys supporting clients throughout the life course as they develop into new roles and identities throughout their womanhood journey.
Erotica and Pleasure
Breána is opening her practice to deeply explore sex and romance-based topics, specifically but not limited to kink, non-monogamous and polyamorous lifestyles. Breána aims to normalize pleasure, desire, eroticism as inherent to human functioning and uses the therapeutic space as vehicle for destigmatizing sex education and exploration. Individuals, couples & throuples are welcome!
