About Lamara
Lamara Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and major life changes. She works with individuals who are navigating grief, mood challenges, addiction, trauma, and parenting concerns. Her tone is steady and practical, focused on clear next steps rather than jargon.
She draws on a client-centered approach that starts by listening and identifying each person’s strengths. Lamara uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are mixed in to help calm the body and steady attention during difficult moments. With 18 years of experience in Louisiana, she brings a broad background in addressing trauma, substance use, anger, and family-related stress. Her work includes helping people cope with grief, intimacy issues, and the many pressures of everyday life.
She pays attention to culture and identity and how they shape each person’s experience. Sessions tend to focus on actionable steps clients can try between meetings. Lamara helps people set small goals, practice new responses, and notice what changes.
She uses motivational interviewing to support commitment and solution-focused strategies to highlight progress. The aim is to build on what already works and add skills where they are missing. Clients leave with concrete coping tools, clearer choices, and a plan for moving forward.
The overall approach is collaborative, respectful, and strengths-based.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-Centered Therapy is built around listening first and tailoring the work to each person. It focuses on a respectful, supportive relationship and helps people clarify their goals and strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood shifts, and unhelpful patterns through practices and experiments between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to help reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. It pairs well with CBT when anxiety or strong emotions make thinking and decision making harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will ask about current problems, what has helped before, and what the client wants to change. This makes the work collaborative and tailored to the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit appointments into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint is preferred. These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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