Tamika Johnson
Compassionate counselor for steady, practical progress
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tamika
Tamika Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who greets each client with patience and practical support. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and acknowledges how hard reaching out can be. Her style focuses on steady progress and celebrating small gains while learning from setbacks.
Tamika draws on 14 years in mental health to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, addiction, and mood difficulties. She emphasizes the mind-body-spirit connection and treats each person as unique.
Background and approach
Sessions center on building self-awareness and identifying concrete goals that matter to the individual. Her work commonly addresses parenting and family concerns alongside a wide range of mental health challenges. Tamika uses person-centered care to highlight strengths, and she mixes in cognitive and trauma-informed techniques when helpful.
She aims to be patient and respectful while supporting emotional wellness. Tamika holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She is licensed in Texas and has experience applying evidence-informed strategies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness in everyday language.
Her approach is direct and compassionate rather than purely clinical. People who meet with Tamika can expect someone who listens without judgment and helps shape doable steps forward. The process begins by building rapport and a steady therapeutic connection.
She frames counseling as collaborative work toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
How Tamika blends approaches for online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own answers. It is useful for clients who need validation and steady support while they set personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and change patterns in their emotional responses and relationships. It can be helpful when emotions repeat in ways that cause distress or create distance from others.
Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, values, and what feels most comfortable. That assessment happens over the first sessions and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit therapy into a busy 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Tamika
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- Stop at any point