About Allison
Allison Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth.
Allison draws on ten years of clinical experience working in outpatient settings and with people involved in the criminal justice system. She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral tools to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and try new ways of coping.
How Allison works
Sessions are collaborative and practical. She also brings experience with substance-related problems, attention challenges such as ADHD, parenting strains, caregiving stress, and issues connected to adoption and foster care. Allison supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and sleep problems by breaking these concerns into manageable steps.
In therapy she helps people build problem-solving skills, boost self-esteem, and clarify career or life-purpose questions. She uses narrative and mindfulness techniques when they match a person's needs, helping them reframe stories about themselves and practice present-moment coping. Allison understands that starting therapy can feel hard.
She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. The work moves at the client's pace and focuses on small, realistic changes that add up over time.
Allison lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Allison works with
The areas below are the ones Allison selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Allison uses client-centered therapy to keep the work focused on each person's values and goals. That approach emphasizes listening, building trust, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. EMDR is used to address traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided eye movements; it can help people who continue to be affected by past traumatic events.Finding the right approach is often a collaborative process. Allison will discuss these options with clients, consider their goals and comfort level, and adapt methods as needed. The plan evolves over time so clients can test strategies and keep what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full therapeutic sessions and visual connection. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are convenient for shorter updates, quick coping reminders, or when a written check-in fits a busy day. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules.
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