About Chad
Chad Johnson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 19 years of experience to his work in Missouri. He focuses on common stresses of daily life and the emotional strains that follow. Chad uses a straightforward, respectful approach that helps people feel heard and understood.
He helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, or challenges around intimacy and relationships. He also supports those facing family conflict, divorce and separation, blended family issues, and troubles that come from a difficult family of origin.
Background and approach
Chad works with concerns such as anger, self-esteem, impulsivity, and career-related stress as well. Chad favors methods that center the person’s story and practical problem solving. He uses client-centered techniques to make space for each person’s experience.
He applies cognitive behavioral ideas to identify patterns of thought and behavior that are keeping someone stuck. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used to set clear, doable goals and to build momentum toward them. Narrative therapy is a tool he uses to help people reframe negative stories about themselves and try new ways of living.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small changes that add up. Chad’s work is practical and relational. He aims to help people move from feeling overwhelmed to having clearer steps forward.
The focus is on what can be changed now and how to build on those changes over time.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Chad commonly draws on client-centered work to create a supportive conversation where each person’s experience matters. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to the person, and helping them find their own path forward. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to spot unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and to test small, practical changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Chad will talk with you about what you want to change, try different techniques, and adjust plans as you learn what helps most. The goal is to match methods to your needs, goals, and preferences rather than to follow a single set of techniques.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits your day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, or a lower-key way to connect when typing feels easier. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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