Nathaniel Johnston
Practical skills for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nathaniel
Nathaniel Johnston is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, address addictive behaviors, and cope after trauma or abuse. He also supports those dealing with depression, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
Sessions are adapted to each person. Nathaniel uses practical tools from evidence-based approaches to teach skills people can use between meetings. He offers both short-term check-ins and longer-term work depending on what someone needs.
Background and approach
He brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions. That experience includes work with people facing career challenges, bipolar mood concerns, and life transitions. He also supports clients with ADHD and those navigating grief and intimacy-related issues.
Nathaniel often addresses relationship and family-related problems by focusing on communication and patterns that keep struggles going. He pays attention to how early attachment and abandonment experiences can shape current behavior. He also works with issues linked to chronic illness, caregiving stress, and body image.
People meet him and find concrete next steps. He aims for clear goals and steady progress. The tone in sessions is respectful and straightforward, with attention to practical coping and long-term change.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and focus on values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That teamwork helps shape session focus and the tools used between meetings.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These formats let people connect from home or during busy days and allow for brief check-ins or longer sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques to these formats so people can practice skills and track progress between meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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