About Christen
Christen Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She uses a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps people can take right away. Christen aims to make the first sessions clear and manageable for someone who feels overwhelmed.
She centers conversations on what matters most to the client and adapts the pace to each person. Christen draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on mindfulness to build attention and calm.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify personal values and act in ways that match those values. Christen has 12 years of professional experience working with concerns such as relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and substance use concerns.
In sessions she focuses on concrete skills people can practice between meetings. Her approach is collaborative: Christen listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals. She uses short-term techniques when helpful and shifts to longer-term work when clients want deeper change.
Practical tools, clear explanations, and steady support are consistent parts of her work. Christen works from Louisiana and conducts therapy in English. She encourages people to take the first step when they are ready and offers guided, paced support through the process.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them, then choose small actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often involves short exercises and homework to practice new skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental listening stance where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christen collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, symptoms, and day-to-day life. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjusts plans as progress is made so the work fits how a person prefers to learn and grow.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, immediate coping strategies, or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to get help around work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping regular, focused therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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