About Chris
Chris Johns is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of experience. He works from Alabama and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, move through grief, and address past trauma. He creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk and be heard.
He uses straightforward methods to help people name problems and try new habits. Sessions often include exploring thoughts and behaviors that keep stress going, and practicing simple mindfulness to reduce tension.
Background and approach
He also helps people sort relationship problems and improve communication in day-to-day life. Chris draws on many years of clinical work to tailor sessions to each person. He listens first, then suggests practical steps to try between sessions.
Those steps are small and realistic so they can fit into a busy schedule. People meet him for a mix of short-term problem solving and longer work on deeper hurts. When trauma or abuse is involved he focuses on safety and steady pacing so people set the pace of change.
He balances practical skills with attention to emotions. Outside the therapy room he values clear goals and gentle accountability. He supports use of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or messaging as needed.
The aim is to help people feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the conversation and the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens closely, reflects what he hears, and helps people notice their own goals and values before suggesting changes. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental space to talk through stress or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavioral experiments. CBT is especially helpful for anxiety, stress, and symptoms of depression because it gives clear tools to use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods over time based on a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps make sure the work fits real life and changes at a comfortable pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, shorter check-ins, or ongoing reflection between appointments. Using these formats makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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