About Derron
Derron Johnson is a licensed clinical professional counselor with five years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. He works with individuals to clarify feelings, build coping skills, and make practical changes. Derron practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
He creates a calm, accepting space where people can talk through painful memories and current problems. Derron emphasizes clear, straightforward conversation and practical skill building rather than jargon.
How Derron works
He aims to help clients understand patterns that keep them stuck and try new ways of responding. His work often focuses on attachment and communication challenges, addiction and process-related behaviors, dissociation, and self-harm concerns. He also helps people facing family-of-origin issues, commitment doubts, isolation, and struggles with self-esteem.
Derron pays particular attention to trauma and post-traumatic stress when those experiences are part of a person's story. Sessions include looking at thoughts and behaviors, practicing new skills, and planning small, doable steps between meetings. He balances short-term strategies for relief with longer-term work on relationships and meaning.
Derron meets people wherever they are in their process and adapts the pace to each person's needs. Therapy starts with a simple intake and matching process followed by sessions that may be by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He describes therapy as a partnership where the client sets goals and Derron helps guide the work toward those goals.
What Derron works with
The areas below are the ones Derron selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of Derron’s sessions draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and emotional regulation. Cognitive-behavioral approaches look at how thoughts and actions interact and teach practical tools to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. These techniques help with problem solving, mood management, and making changes in day-to-day life.Complementary approaches emphasize acceptance and mindfully noticing difficult feelings without trying to fight them. These methods teach skills for tolerating distress and choosing actions that align with long-term values, which can be useful for trauma recovery, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out which techniques fit a person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as work progresses. Clients set priorities and the therapist helps tailor the methods to those priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text allow ongoing processing between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care around work or family commitments.
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