About Johnna
Johnna Turnage is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, family concerns, and navigating life changes. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel better.
She listens first and follows the person’s pace. Sessions tend to be interactive and goal-oriented. Johnna draws on counseling methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build emotional awareness, and set clear steps toward change.
Background and approach
Her background includes school guidance counseling, college advising, and individual and group counseling. She has also provided substance-related and nonmedical military family life counseling. This range of experience shapes a flexible style that adapts to what each person needs in the room.
In sessions she focuses on what is useful now. That can mean working on coping skills for anxiety, talking through grief, or mapping steps to manage family stress. She encourages small, manageable changes that build momentum over time.
People who reach out can expect a friendly, down-to-earth conversation and practical tools to try between meetings. Johnna aims to help people reframe thinking patterns and take concrete actions that support healthier daily routines and relationships.
Approaches for online work and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a supportive, nonjudgmental space. The therapist follows the person’s lead to help them feel heard and to identify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives simple exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people understand and shift emotional responses, which can be useful for strong feelings like grief or anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean blending techniques so sessions are practical and tailored to where the person is right now.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a face-to-face feel and teaching skills that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief updates, homework checks, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit counseling into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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