About Heather
Heather Johnson, LMSW, offers a warm, person-focused approach to therapy. She centers sessions on each person's goals and strengths. Her style is respectful and compassionate for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns.
She blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices. That means conversations aim to clarify patterns of thought and behavior while building practical skills for day-to-day life. Sessions also make space to notice feelings and to connect those feelings to personal values.
Background and approach
Heather has seven years of practice as a licensed master social worker in Michigan. Her experience includes helping people manage depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people with ADHD, issues around intimacy, and challenges tied to caregiving or aging loved ones.
In sessions she listens first and tailors plans to fit each person's needs. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find what motivates change and narrative techniques to help people reframe difficult stories. The focus is on clear steps clients can try between meetings.
Heather works with adults on a range of life and mental health challenges, including coping with major life changes and managing addictive patterns. Her approach aims to be practical, steady, and strengths-focused while honoring each person's beliefs and background.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Heather often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood. That approach helps people clarify their goals and build on their own strengths, whether discussing anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches clear, practical skills to test new ways of coping with stress, anxiety, or mood shifts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they may try an approach for a few sessions and adjust based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for nuanced discussion and skill practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates and ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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