About Allison
Allison Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD concerns, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps easier for worried parents and adults who feel stuck. Allison emphasizes building trust so clients can share thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Allison draws on ten years of experience in outpatient counseling settings and work with people connected to the criminal justice system.
Background and approach
Her background includes study of corrections, substance abuse, career counseling, and child and adolescent concerns. That mix informs how she supports practical problem solving and goal setting. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques.
She helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns, try different ways of thinking, and practice skills that improve daily routines and relationships. She also uses mindfulness and narrative approaches to help clients see their story differently. Allison pays attention to life context, including adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges like sleep problems, addictions, or trauma.
She works with people facing parenting strain, career crossroads, or questions about identity and intimacy. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Allison helps set small, doable goals and builds confidence in problem solving.
She encourages paced progress so changes feel manageable and real.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Allison uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and collaboration, helping clients name goals and feel heard. This approach supports talking through daily struggles, building trust, and deciding practical next steps that fit each person's life.She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. CBT works well online because clients can learn skills, complete brief exercises between sessions, and track progress over time. Allison may also use EMDR techniques for trauma-related memories when appropriate; EMDR targets distressing memories and can be adapted to remote formats under a clinician's guidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Allison will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then help choose techniques that feel most useful. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option, short check-ins work well via live chat, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible around work, school, and family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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