Chris Johns, LPC

Chris Johns is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 27 years of experience helping people move past stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and depression. He works directly with individuals to identify practical steps they can take right away. His approach is calm and straightforward, focused on clear goals and steady progress.

Clients who come to him often want tools that fit everyday life. He uses conversations to untangle patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen communication. Sessions aim to leave people with something useful to try between meetings.

Chris blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed techniques. That means he listens first, then offers strategies like cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness practices when they match a person’s needs. He also brings trauma-focused methods when people are recovering from past harm.

He has worked across many concerns, including caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, adoption and foster care issues, and aging and geriatric issues. He helps people talk through attachment worries, commitment struggles, body image, and complicated grief in a direct, humane way.

Chris encourages practical goal-setting and steady skill-building. He supports people who want clearer thinking, calmer days, and healthier relationships. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.

How his approaches guide online work

Chris uses client-centered therapy to ground sessions in what matters most to the person. That means he listens carefully, reflects what he hears, and helps clients set goals that feel relevant and doable.

He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes. CBT tools can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns by giving concrete steps to practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will collaborate with each client to choose or adapt methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than assuming one path fits everyone.

The practical upside of online therapy is fitting sessions into busy lives. Confirm the specific session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online options can make it easier to schedule during a lunch break, reduce travel time, or choose a shorter check-in when days are hectic. Clinicians can use the same client-centered listening, CBT exercises, and mindfulness practices in remote sessions to help people build skills and manage symptoms without changing the core of the work.