About Willie
Willie Johnson, LCSW, offers steady, experienced care for people coping with phobias, anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain. He writes in plain terms and helps clients untangle painful thoughts and reactions. His manner is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel clearer about themselves and their next steps.
He uses a few well-known approaches to guide sessions, including client-centered work that focuses on each person's goals and cognitive behavioral strategies to spot and change unhelpful thought patterns.
Background and approach
He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to address hurt in close relationships and internal family systems concepts to help people notice different parts of themselves. In sessions he helps people identify recurring emotional patterns that drive worry, anger, or avoidance. He encourages self-reflection and teaches skills to challenge negative thoughts.
People learn tools to reduce panic, manage strong feelings, and handle life changes more calmly. Willie brings more than three decades of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker. He practices from Nevada and has worked with many concerns including trauma, addictions, grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues, ADHD, and gender-related stress.
He aims to help clients move past survival coping into clearer daily functioning. Sessions focus on practical steps and gradual change. Willie emphasizes forgiveness, accountability, and respect as part of emotional healing.
He invites a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is tracked over time.
Approach and online care that fit your needs
Willie uses client-centered work to keep sessions focused on each person's goals and values. That approach centers the conversation on what matters to the client and supports their choices while building trust and clarity.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or phobias and then practice new responses. CBT is useful for panic, worry, avoidance, and coping with upsetting thoughts.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Willie will listen to your concerns, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps you make progress. Clients decide what feels most useful as they try tools and build skills.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good when visual connection matters, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, chat fits brief updates or reflective exchanges, and messaging lets you write between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when travel or schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Utah
- Languages
- English
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