Zakia Johnson
Compassionate, steady support for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC, MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Zakia
Zakia Johnson offers two decades of work in emotional and behavioral health. She brings steady, reliable care that focuses on practical support. Parents and individuals often seek her out for help managing stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns, and parenting challenges.
Zakia is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and also holds MD and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, credentials. Her approach centers on building a dependable therapeutic relationship. She provides one-on-one support as well as small group and family counseling depending on a person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on helping people develop tools to cope, grow, and meet life’s demands in healthier ways. Zakia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, mood disorders, addiction, and attachment or communication problems. She also works with issues like postpartum depression, grief, anger, and challenges around pregnancy and childbirth.
The aim is to strengthen day-to-day functioning and emotional resilience. Clients can expect a practical, grounded style that mixes accountability with encouragement. Zakia emphasizes consistency and follow-through so changes stick over time.
She frames therapy like planting seeds for future growth and teaches skills that apply across different life situations. Practicing in Maryland, Zakia brings 20 years of experience to her work. Her background includes individual, small group, and family counseling tailored to each person’s goals and circumstances.
Sessions are offered in English.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Zakia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills people can use day to day. One approach helps people identify patterns in thoughts and behavior, then practice new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed strategies that help people process difficult experiences and build coping tools for stress and post-traumatic symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will review a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and help decide which techniques to try first. The plan can be adjusted over time so it fits what actually helps the individual or parent in their daily life.
Online therapy lets sessions fit into busy family schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions offer a simpler option when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to check in between appointments or when immediate, brief support is needed. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and follow through on the skills learned in therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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