About Allison
Allison Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, straightforward approach that aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for busy lives. Parents reading on a phone will find short, clear steps about what to expect in sessions and how therapy can fit into daily routines.
Allison draws on ten years of clinical experience working with adolescents and young adults in outpatient settings and with people involved in the criminal justice system.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered counseling to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Her work also includes cognitive behavioral therapy to examine and shift unhelpful thought patterns. Sessions often focus on skill building - learning ways to cope with anxiety, improve sleep, handle life changes, and manage attention challenges like ADHD.
She also addresses mood-related issues such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and helps people facing substance concerns, relationship struggles, or burnout from caregiving and compassion fatigue. Allison has additional interest in adoption and foster care issues, body image, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, and navigating major life changes like divorce or a career shift.
She incorporates mindfulness and narrative techniques when helpful to support present-moment awareness and personal meaning-making. Therapy can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Allison recognizes that starting therapy is a brave step and aims to help clients build confidence, practical problem-solving skills, and clearer next steps.
How Allison’s Approaches Work Online
Allison uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting connection and make sessions focused on each person's priorities. This approach means listening carefully and shaping sessions around what the client brings, whether that is anxiety, parenting strain, or work stress.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic attacks, sleep problems, and low mood by teaching practical strategies to change thinking and try small behavioral experiments. When trauma is a concern, Allison can incorporate elements of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to support processing of distressing memories in a paced way.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they identify which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a hectic day and to follow up between sessions. These options help people access care from home or work and keep therapy consistent even with busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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