About Nathaniel
Nathaniel Johnston is a licensed mental health counselor with 12 years of experience based in Florida. He focuses on helping people reduce stress and manage anxiety so they can feel more in control day to day. He also helps people who are struggling with addiction, trauma, depression, or major life changes.
Nathaniel works with issues like grief, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and career concerns as well. His style is practical and centered on the individual.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. He listens for what matters most and then suggests simple strategies you can try between meetings. That might mean skills for handling intense feelings, experiments to test unhelpful thoughts, or steps to rebuild trust and intimacy.
Nathaniel uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to change thinking patterns, and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in your goals. He can also use DBT or emotionally focused ideas when relationships or emotion regulation are central concerns.
He offers both short-term and longer-term support depending on what a person needs. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Nathaniel aims to create a respectful, calm setting where people can try new ways of coping and make practical progress.
If you want help with anxiety, stress, or recovery from difficult experiences, he guides a clear path forward with steady, compassionate support.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when strong feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on moving forward rather than only reducing symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-world experiments to change reactions and behavior. CBT is commonly used for worry, depression, and sleep problems and gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences, then choose or combine methods that fit. That collaborative process may start with a few sessions that focus on immediate coping skills, and then shift to longer-term patterns or relationship work as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for emotional work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps with ongoing coaching or tracking progress between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and access consistent care from licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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