About Allison
Allison Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use right away. Allison draws on a decade of clinical experience in Michigan to guide people toward clearer thinking and steadier routines.
She blends a person-centered style with cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. That approach means Allison listens first, then helps clients test small changes that build confidence.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be direct and collaborative, with concrete tools for managing panic, sleep problems, or mood shifts. Her background includes work in adolescent and young adult outpatient counseling and supporting people with substance use and involvement in the criminal justice system. That variety shaped a straightforward way of working that focuses on what will change day-to-day life.
Allison also addresses career concerns, parenting stress, and identity issues. She uses additional methods such as mindfulness, narrative therapy, and EMDR when they fit a person’s needs. Those tools are used alongside talking, skill-building, and planning to help people cope with trauma, addiction, and major transitions.
Allison pays attention to how relationships and life stressors affect mood and behavior. Allison aims to make the first steps easier. She helps clients set realistic short-term goals, practice problem solving, and track small wins.
That steady approach supports lasting shifts in thinking and action.
How Allison’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Allison uses a client-centered approach that focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship. That style aims to make people feel heard first, then help them set clear goals and try practical changes to daily routines.She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT in online sessions often includes tracking thought patterns, practicing new behaviors between sessions, and using short exercises during video or text exchanges to test new ways of coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison will talk with each person about their concerns and preferences, then suggest which methods might help most. She works together with clients to adjust the plan over time based on what’s working and what needs change.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or medical needs while staying consistent with treatment.
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What this counselor 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