About Stacy
Dr. Stacy Johnston is a California psychologist with 32 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She focuses on common struggles like low self-esteem, family conflict, and the aftermath of separation or infidelity.
Her approach starts with listening and believing that you know your story best. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people make small changes that matter. Sessions often focus on skills for managing anxious thoughts, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence after painful events.
Background and approach
She combines client-centered conversations with tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused methods. Dr. Johnston offers a variety of online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She has used asynchronous text messaging for over a year and finds it useful for people who prefer writing, need flexibility, or want more frequent contact than weekly sessions allow. Her style is warm and goal-oriented. She helps people break big problems into manageable tasks and tracks progress along the way.
People leave sessions with clear next steps they can try between meetings. Dr. Johnston practices in California and holds the credential CA Psychologist 17457.
She works in English and does not accept international clients. To start, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on therapist availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what she hears, and helps you identify your own strengths and choices. This approach can help with feelings of emptiness, low self-esteem, and relationship distress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new skills between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks at what is already working and builds on small changes. Sessions are short-term and goal-directed, which can be useful when someone wants quick, concrete steps to improve communication or handle a specific problem.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide what to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and asynchronous text messaging let people communicate on their own schedule, refer back to past messages, and get more frequent contact when helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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