About Willie
Willie Johnson, LCSW, is a Nevada-based therapist with 32 years of experience. He helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship problems. His style is straightforward and goal-focused, aimed at helping clients make clear changes in day-to-day life.
Willie uses a mix of approaches in sessions. He draws from client-centered ideas to build trust and from cognitive behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
He also works with emotionally focused techniques to strengthen connection and with Internal Family Systems ideas to separate parts of the self from the core person. In therapy he asks clients to name painful feelings and patterns. Then he helps them recognize which feelings are driving behavior and which are responses they can change.
Sessions include talking, practical exercises, and steps to try between meetings. The aim is to reduce symptoms and improve functioning in clear, measurable ways. Willie has worked with concerns such as trauma and abuse, family problems, parenting stress, anger, intimacy-related issues, and identity matters including LGBT and gender dysphoria.
He also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and co-occurring issues. He offers sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
International clients are accepted and services are provided in English. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Willie uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy as core parts of online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and helping people feel understood so they can name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thoughts that fuel anxiety or depression and then practices new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there he adjusts the balance of listening, emotion work, and practical exercises to match the client's needs.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Utah
- Languages
- English
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