About Anna
Anna Johnson is a licensed professional counselor who brings four years of clinical experience to her practice in Texas. She listens carefully and helps people name what they are feeling. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable from the first session.
She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, and depression by breaking problems into small, usable steps. Anna also supports those navigating trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and struggles with anger.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past loss, attachment wounds, and adoption or foster care experiences shape day-to-day life. Sessions are conversational and practical. Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build skills, improve communication, and reduce symptoms over time.
She centers the person's goals and adjusts pace to what feels doable for each individual. Her work often includes helping people with body image, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and self-harm thoughts in ways that focus on safety and clearer coping choices. She also addresses stress faced by caregivers and first responders and offers support after natural or human-caused disasters.
Outside of sessions she values simple joys, animals, and time with children. That down-to-earth outlook shows up in a relaxed therapy style where progress is made through steady, small changes rather than big leaps.
Approaches and how online therapy works
Anna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and clear steps. One common approach emphasizes practical coping skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior strategies that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and its effects by helping people make sense of difficult memories and learn safer ways to respond when they feel triggered.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face discussion and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to stay consistent with care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English