Meet Josie Mansergh-Johnson

Hi, I’m Josie. I am an integrative psychotherapist practicing as an MHC-LP at Soho Psychotherapy under the clinical supervision of Molly Bates Tetteh. I specialize in recovery, co-occurring disorders, and the complex dynamics that impact individuals and families across generations.

I offer a discreet, compassionate, and empathetic space for individuals, adolescents, and families navigating life’s most challenging seasons. Centering around a holistic, trauma-informed lens, my work is organized around the backdrop of, “What happened to you, and what is still shaping you over time?” I believe that symptoms do not exist in a vacuum; they are deeply influenced by culture, stress and relational systems. That is why I respect you as the expert on your own lived experience and therapy is collaborative.

My approach is grounded in psychodynamic insight and integrates evidence-based tools like Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Sensorimotor skills to facilitate healing and connect mind and body. This multi-layered toolkit allows me to offer particular expertise in recovering from addiction, trauma, codependency, shame, and underlying family-of-origin work.

The systemic perspective I bring to my practice today is the culmination of over a decade of a synthesized personal and professional journey. Having served in diverse roles spanning inpatient and outpatient recovery, school-based settings, and community alcohol counseling in the UK, I draw from this rich lifecycle lens to tailor care across four core areas:

Children, Teens, & Parental Substance Use (SUDs): Supporting youth aged 8-12 navigating a parent’s active addiction, recovery, or life stressors like divorce and grief. I utilize an integrated psychodynamic art and play approach alongside specialized Child/Adolescent DBT (C-DBT) and supportive parent coaching.

Young Adults & Integrated Recovery: Empowering individuals newly sober, ACOAs or other dysfunctional families, or struggling with depression or anxiety to reclaim who they really are.

Adults in Long-Term Recovery: Guiding people who, despite years of sobriety, find themselves declining emotionally, needing an external perspective, or processing underlying codependency and childhood trauma.

Partners & Families Loving Someone with an Addiction: Helping family members explore behavioral patterns, learn healthy communication and boundary-setting, and shift from trauma reactivity to a deeper level of trust and intimacy.

Having relocated internationally and grown up across different cultures, I bring a firsthand lens to the unique disorientation of relocation, emigration, and acculturative stress. My practice is also LGBTQIA+-affirming and dedicated to honoring the full intersectionality of your lived experience.

When not working clinically, I am grateful to ‘pay it forward’ and educate the next generation of counselors at the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, where I instruct Lifespan Development. My peer-reviewed presentations on how to interrupt trajectories have been awarded at both regional and national conferences, leading the American Counseling Association to name me a National Subject Matter Expert in this area.

On the weekends you can find me running along the Hudson, dancing in a local dance class, or out getting coffee with my two Bedlington Terriers.