Johanna Harris
Compassionate practical help for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Johanna
Johanna Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, and mood challenges. Johanna writes care plans and guides conversations to meet each person where they are.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Her approach centers on clear, direct dialogue and sensible strategies. Sessions are tailored to the situation, whether someone needs help with grief, trauma, parenting, or daily coping skills.
Background and approach
Johanna pays attention to how problems affect routines, sleep, and self-esteem, and she helps clients set small goals to regain stability. She also brings experience working with LGBT matters, intimacy concerns, and issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue, and bipolar mood patterns. Additional areas she has addressed include adoption and foster care, aging-related issues, multicultural concerns, and obsessive or phobic patterns.
Johanna adjusts techniques to fit each person’s needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan. Her style is respectful and straightforward. Conversations move at a pace the client is comfortable with, and practical tools are emphasized when helpful.
Johanna encourages clients to notice progress in small steps and to shape treatment based on what works for them. To begin, she asks people to outline goals and current struggles so sessions can focus on useful next steps. The emphasis is on reliable support and on building skills that make everyday life easier.
Practical approaches for online therapy and care
Johanna draws on evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and rebuild routines. One common method she uses focuses on building concrete coping skills - teaching breath work, sleep routines, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety and manage cravings. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, addictions, and sleep problems.Another frequent emphasis is problem-focused work that looks at relationships and daily habits. This involves mapping conflict patterns, identifying small behavioral changes, and practicing new responses to improve communication and reduce anger or intimacy struggles. It is often helpful for relationship concerns, parenting stress, and grief-related difficulties.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Johanna talks with each person about their goals, tries techniques out, and adjusts the plan based on what helps. She aims to match methods to the client’s needs, preferences, and pace rather than applying a single format.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions. The variety of formats also allows clients to choose what feels most comfortable while keeping focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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