Fquira Johannes
Compassionate guidance for steady family change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, New Jersey, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Fquira
Fquira Johannes greets people with a calm, steady presence and practical focus. She emphasizes small, manageable steps so progress feels doable even when life is overwhelming. Parents and carers will find straightforward help for issues like stress, sleep problems, parenting concerns, and relationship strain.
She keeps language simple and meets people where they are. Johannes draws on twenty years of practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, to guide conversations toward clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions center on what each person knows about their life while the clinician offers tools and structure. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way, and Motivational Interviewing supports finding personal reasons to change. She often uses visual aids and hands-on activities when they help explain ideas.
That approach can make new skills easier to try at home. Practical parenting strategies, coping methods for anxiety and depression, and steps to manage substance concerns are common focuses. Her work also addresses grief, trauma, intimacy issues, body image, ADHD, and communication problems.
Johannes includes coaching elements to help people move toward clearer choices in careers and family roles. She treats each person as the expert on their life while offering structured support. Based in North Carolina, she holds licenses in multiple states and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients who can connect online.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling to fit your availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered work means the therapist treats the person as the expert in their own life and follows the client’s priorities while offering professional guidance. This approach helps when someone needs practical support and wants to build on what already works for them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing new skills that change how people feel and act. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habit-related issues. Motivational Interviewing helps people find personal reasons to change and is often used when someone is working through addictions or commitment concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to try methods that match their goals, preferences, and pace. That may mean combining techniques or adjusting them over time.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to fit into busy family routines. Sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what feels most workable. This flexibility supports steady progress while balancing school, work, and caregiving responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New Jersey, California
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Fquira
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- Stop at any point