About Heather
Heather Johnson is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and brings seven years of clinical experience to common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. Her style is warm and interactive and she focuses on helping people name problems and find workable steps forward.
In sessions Heather uses straightforward talk and practical tools to address mood, coping, and changes in daily life.
Background and approach
She often helps clients unpack patterns that feed worry or low self-esteem and works with them to develop new ways of responding. When addiction, grief, or career stress shows up, she helps people break problems into small, manageable tasks. Heather draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to shape conversations and goals.
She also uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and rewrite painful stories. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when someone wants to build readiness for change. Her work is collaborative: she asks questions, listens closely, and adapts pacing to each person’s needs.
She respects clients’ values and often weaves faith and personal strengths into sessions when that feels right for the person. Heather supports people navigating parenting challenges, intimacy issues, anger, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiver stress, and a wide range of other struggles.
Her aim is to help people feel steadier, more in control, and able to take the next practical step in life.
How her approaches work online
Heather often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. That approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is also a common part of her work and involves noticing thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer. She aims to match tools to real-life challenges rather than forcing one method on everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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