About Heather
Heather Johnson uses a client-centered approach that keeps each person's goals and values at the center of sessions. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, with seven years of experience and she combines practical strategies with reflective listening to help people move forward. Many people come to her for stress and anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, addiction challenges, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life changes.
How Heather works
Heather pays attention to both immediate needs and longer-term patterns that affect daily life. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings, and on understanding what gets in the way of change.
Techniques come from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative ideas to reshape unhelpful stories. Heather respects personal values and wants clients to lead with what matters most to them. She offers practical tools for coping, managing mood, and improving communication.
Work in therapy is paced to the person's comfort and goals. Based in Michigan, Heather provides care in English. People who choose to begin can expect collaborative planning, straightforward feedback, and attention to both strengths and challenges.
Heather lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Heather works with
The areas below are the ones Heather 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities and values and emphasizes listening and support. Online sessions using this approach center the conversation on what matters most and let the therapist tailor questions and suggestions to each person's goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks concerns into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions this can mean working on small experiments, thought records, and behavior plans between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase clarity. These exercises are easy to practice during video or phone sessions and can be used as short tools during a busy day.
Heather treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the person about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process guides whether the work leans more toward skill-building, story work, or reflective listening.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into life. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills with guidance. Phone sessions can be helpful when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or steady support between longer sessions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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