Dr. Anna Lisa Jóhannsdóttir 
Psy.D.

Dr. Anna Lisa 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, Dr. Anna Lísa has had the opportunity to work in multiple clinical settings in New York City, across the San Francisco Bay Area, and most recently the GTA. She has supported and advocated for children, youth, adults, and families from multi-level stressed communities for over 10 years by providing culturally sensitive, trauma-focused therapeutic services in home, community clinic, university, and school-based settings. 

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Dr. Anna Lísa is passionate about and has focused her work on supporting children and youth who are struggling to connect with and understand their experiences of both intergenerational and complex trauma, systemic oppression, anxiety, and depression.  In addition, from the start of her doctoral training in 2012, Anna Lísa has also focused on collaborative psychological assessment and psychoeducational assessments where she strives to work together with the child, caregivers, and/or school staff to provide answers to the questions they may have to identify the child’s strengths and challenges.