About Johanna
Johanna Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 13 years of experience. She focuses on common but often painful problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make the start of therapy feel manageable for people who are unsure what to expect.
She works with concerns across relationships, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Johanna also helps with sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, and career stress.
Background and approach
Phobias and obsessive-compulsive concerns are among the additional areas she can address. In sessions she adapts the conversation and plans to fit each person’s situation. That means looking at concrete goals, practical steps, and realistic coping tools that can be used between meetings.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction. Her approach includes working through life changes, coping strategies for ADHD and bipolar mood challenges, and support for LGBT-related concerns. She also brings experience with multicultural issues, adoption and foster care, and aging-related questions.
Johanna takes a collaborative stance and helps people set clear, attainable next steps. People who choose her can expect an honest, steady guide who balances problem-solving with emotional support. She encourages small changes that add up and acknowledges the courage it takes to begin therapy.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Johanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses is structured problem-focused work, which breaks distress into specific patterns and teaches step-by-step strategies to reduce symptoms like anxiety, phobias, or compulsive behaviors. This method helps people test new ways of coping between sessions.She also emphasizes skills training for emotional regulation and coping. That involves teaching breathing, grounding, sleep hygiene, and planning techniques to manage intense feelings and improve daily functioning. These tools are useful for stress, trauma reactions, and mood challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods together. Clients collaborate on which techniques to try and how to measure progress over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the formats that feel most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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