About Chris
Chris Johns is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of experience helping adults cope with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and depression. He works from Alabama and offers sessions in English. His approach aims to make difficult problems easier to manage by breaking them into clear steps.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations that focus on what matters most to them. He listens first, and then helps people set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical tools for reducing anxiety and improving communication in close relationships. Chris uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. He draws on client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client's experience.
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop healthier patterns of behavior. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, he brings trauma-focused strategies and a careful pace so people can process painful memories without becoming overwhelmed. Mindfulness practices are used to help clients stay present and reduce stress symptoms between sessions.
He supports people facing a wide range of concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and changes that come with aging. Sessions may include skills practice, guided reflection, and planning for real-world changes. The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes.
Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Life
Chris uses client-centered work that keeps the conversation focused on each person's goals and experience. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the pace of change based on what they say they need.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT provides concrete tools to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and build new habits that support daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each client about their situation, goals, and preferences, and then recommend strategies to try. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls are helpful when visual cues matter for communication. Phone sessions can fit during a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to fit therapy into a busy life and make regular progress more achievable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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