Heather Johnson
Compassionate, faith-informed social worker
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heather
Heather Johnson is a licensed social worker who offers compassionate, faith-informed support. She uses a warm, interactive style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Heather draws on therapies that focus on practical steps and personal strengths to guide conversations toward manageable goals.
She has seven years of clinical experience in Michigan and holds an LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker. Heather has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar conditions, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
She also addresses parenting, family matters, and career stress when those areas come up. Heather structures sessions around what each person needs. She listens first, then introduces strategies from cognitive and narrative approaches.
Mindfulness and motivational techniques are layered in when they fit the goals and personality of the person in the room. In practice, Heather focuses on clear, doable skills and steady progress. Conversations are respectful and centered on the client’s experience and values.
She aims to help people build on their existing strengths while learning new ways to respond to problems. For those who prefer faith to be part of the process, Heather integrates a Christian perspective when clients want that included. She works to create a collaborative plan that honors each person’s beliefs and priorities.
How Heather’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client lead, helping people feel heard and understood before choosing steps to change. It can help when someone wants a supportive space to talk through personal struggles and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear exercises and small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle stress in day-to-day life.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques are useful for stress, anger, and coping with difficult emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts plans as progress is made and feedback comes in.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions provide a simpler way to connect. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or choose a less formal way to communicate. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep consistent care.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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