Brooks Johnson
Purpose-driven counselor with practical tools
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brooks
Brooks Johnson is a licensed mental health counselor with 27 years of practice in Florida. He begins with the belief that people have purpose and the capacity to grow. Sessions aim to offer clear feedback and steady support so a person can move toward a healthier, more balanced life.
Brooks combines formal training with lessons learned from life experience. He leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Existential ideas while also using mindfulness and solution-focused methods when they fit the situation.
Background and approach
He adapts his language and pace to each person so conversations stay practical and straightforward. In a typical session he listens first, then helps clients break problems into manageable steps. He works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addictions, trauma, grief, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, anger, career challenges, ADHD, and related life changes.
He also offers support around aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and end-of-life topics. Brooks says spiritual concerns can be part of counseling when clients want that included, and he tailors that to each individual’s beliefs. He draws from several therapy traditions to create a clear plan with practical goals.
The tone is direct but supportive, aimed at steady progress. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Brooks holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential - FL LMHC MH9403 - and frames his work around real-world steps people can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Brooks commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy when working with clients. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing small behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help people stay present and manage stress and reactivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods that match the client’s needs. That collaborative process helps shape a plan people can follow between sessions.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule, continue care from home or while traveling within the same state, and use shorter check-ins when needed. The focus remains on clear steps, accessible tools, and steady support delivered by a licensed professional.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Brooks
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