About Karl
Karl Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience in Michigan. He focuses on helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. He also supports people facing addictions, grief, changes in motivation, and concerns about self-esteem and intimacy.
He works in a conversational, collaborative way. Sessions focus on practical steps the client can try between meetings. He adapts his approach to each person instead of following one fixed method.
Background and approach
Karl blends several methods to match what a person needs. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and make purposeful changes.
Attachment-based and emotionally focused work inform how he looks at close relationships. That helps when communication, trust, or commitment create repeated problems. Client-centered principles guide sessions so people feel heard and respected as they set goals.
Karl has a long record helping people through major life shifts, persistent anxiety, mood concerns, and substance issues. He aims to support clients as they build new habits and reactions that fit their values and goals. He encourages steady progress and practical problem solving.
For someone ready to try therapy, he offers a tailored plan and clear steps. The initial work typically involves identifying priorities, testing small changes, and adjusting the plan as needed to keep moving forward.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult feelings are present. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change how people feel and act. It’s practical for anxiety, mood, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connection styles show up now, which can help with communication and trust in partnerships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Karl will discuss options with each person and decide together which methods match their goals, preferences, and current needs. That collaborative planning can shift over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different routines. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller interaction matter. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are helpful for brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make consistent care more flexible and easier to maintain around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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