Dan Johnson (he/him) is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, completed his predoctoral internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Johnson has previously worked as a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital’s outpatient substance use disorders (SUDs) clinic, as the Director of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Program at Boston Child Study Center, and as Education & Facilitation Lead at Tend Health. He is now in private practice, providing evidence-based therapy to adults and offering training to mental health professionals and organizations. Dr. Johnson has trained clinicians internationally on evidence-based treatments, with a focus on mindfulness and acceptance-based behavioral therapies (ACT, DBT, CBT). He has been designated by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science as a Peer Reviewed ACT Trainer. Dr. Johnson is also Teaching Faculty at William James College and teaches graduate psychology courses on SUDs, ACT, and evidence-based clinical practice. In these settings, Dr. Johnson emphasizes the role of context, particularly sociocultural identities and systems, that shape our understanding of and response to behavior.