About Johanna
Johanna Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of clinical experience in Georgia. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety so daily life feels more manageable. Johanna meets people where they are and treats them with respect and compassion.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens to what matters most and then tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions often include clear steps to try between meetings and ways to notice small changes over time.
Background and approach
Johanna has worked with people facing addictions, relationship strains, trauma and grief. She also supports those dealing with sleep or eating concerns, career pressures, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Her practice includes work around intimacy, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
She is attentive to multicultural issues and has experience with adoption and foster care, aging concerns, and challenges linked to military service and HIV/AIDS. Johanna also has experience related to obsessive-compulsive tendencies, personality and phobia-related problems, and other complex presentations. Conversations with Johanna are paced to fit each person.
She aims to make therapy a place for practical problem solving, steady emotional support, and clearer next steps. Starting can feel hard, and she is focused on making that first step easier.
Approaches for anxiety and practical online care
Johanna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on concrete skills and gradual change. One common approach helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and avoidance. This method can be useful for anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and phobias. Another approach focuses on building routine skills like sleep hygiene, activity scheduling, and steady emotion regulation to improve mood, energy, and daily functioning. These techniques often help with depression, stress, and coping after loss or trauma.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Johanna will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She adjusts plans based on what is working and what feels manageable in session and between meetings.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to keep momentum as goals evolve.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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