Johnna Turnage
Calm guidance for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Johnna
Johnna Turnage is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, family concerns, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She brings 20 years of counseling experience across schools, colleges, group settings, and substance-related work. Johnna works from a warm, outgoing style and aims to help people find practical ways to feel better day to day.
Her sessions tend to be interactive and focused on small, achievable changes.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to try shifts in thinking and behavior that can improve mood and relationships. The goal is to help people make choices that move them toward a more satisfying life. Johnna’s background includes school guidance counseling, college advising, individual and group counseling, and work in substance and non-medical military family life counseling.
She holds licenses in Tennessee and Kentucky - Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). Her practice experience covers children, adults aged 18-54, and senior adults. In the therapy room she blends practical tools with a supportive presence.
She uses approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused methods, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. These tools help with mood, family issues, caregiver stress, and life transitions. People who contact her will find straightforward guidance and a focus on steps that can be tried between sessions.
The emphasis is on collaboration and on building skills that fit daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person where they are. The therapist reflects understanding and helps clients identify their own goals, which can help with family stress and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. It teaches simple techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, often useful for anxiety and depression.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and how those feelings shape relationships. It can be useful when family dynamics or grief make it hard to connect.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss options, and adapt methods to match the client’s needs and preferences. That means techniques may shift as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy family schedules and to continue work from different locations. Licensed professionals can use these options to deliver the same conversational and skills-focused work used in office visits, with emphasis on practical steps that transfer to daily life.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Johnna
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- Stop at any point