About Catherine
Catherine Johnston is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on clear, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship difficulties. Catherine uses straightforward methods to help clients understand what they are feeling and what they want to change.
She combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and mindfulness tools to help people manage painful thoughts and build a values-driven life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short exercises to notice thoughts, set small goals, and practice new behaviors. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used when someone needs help clarifying priorities and making a plan. Catherine has worked with many concerns tied to life transitions, grief, trauma, caregiver strain, and career stress.
She also addresses issues like codependency, communication breakdowns, anger, and intimacy-related struggles. Her work includes support for people dealing with substance use and domestic violence histories, approached with attention to safety and practical coping skills. In sessions she aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk frankly and try new ways of responding.
The focus is on small, achievable changes that make daily life easier. Catherine emphasizes collaboration and keeps goals concrete so progress can be tracked. People who connect with her often want a mix of emotional understanding and actionable tools.
She meets clients where they are and helps them build steady habits that align with their values and responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them, then choose small actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with motivation or addiction.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine works with clients to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust techniques based on what helps most. The first few sessions are often about clarifying values and practical next steps so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for full conversations and exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can provide shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English