About Marsha
Marsha Johnson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings 15 years of professional counseling experience and practical strategies to sessions. Her approach centers on what each person is dealing with right now.
She works to build clear goals and steps that fit daily life. Before offering counseling, Marsha spent many years providing care in hospitals, nursing homes, day programs, schools, and senior centers.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to work with people facing illness, aging, grief, and long-term health challenges. She has also practiced in hospice settings and supported people through end-of-life issues. In sessions she blends cognitive-behavioral methods with humanistic and motivational enhancement styles and uses expressive techniques when helpful.
That means she offers tools to change unhelpful thinking, supports personal values and motivation, and may introduce creative ways to try out new behaviors. She emphasizes clients' strengths when planning next steps. Marsha also addresses concerns such as depression, grief, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and compassion fatigue.
She notes experience with ADHD and with multicultural issues and life-purpose questions. Her work is grounded in listening closely and adapting to each person's needs. Sessions are offered from Massachusetts and conducted in English.
People can expect straightforward, calm guidance and practical strategies they can use between appointments.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Marsha commonly uses cognitive-behavioral methods to help people identify unhelpful thinking and practice new coping skills. This approach breaks problems into clear steps and gives concrete exercises that can be tried between sessions. She also draws on humanistic techniques that emphasize listening, values, and personal strengths to shape goals that matter to the person. Expressive techniques may be introduced when another way of working feels useful, for example to process grief or strong emotions through creative activities.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. Marsha collaborates with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. She discusses options openly and adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, quick coping ideas, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and health concerns while keeping a consistent counseling process.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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