About Chris
Chris Johns is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of clinical experience. He works with adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship problems. He practices in Alabama and offers sessions in English for local and international clients.
Chris likes to keep sessions practical and straightforward. He listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then he helps set clear, achievable goals and teaches tools people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Expect calm, direct guidance and an emphasis on small, useful changes. His approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills. He also draws on trauma-focused methods when past harm is a central issue.
The focus is on skills people can use to reduce worry, manage mood, and handle painful memories. Chris has worked with a wide range of concerns over nearly three decades. Beyond core issues like anxiety and depression, he has experience with attachment challenges, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, body image, and commitment or codependency problems.
He tailors plans to the person in front of him rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. Sessions are available through video or phone, and also by live chat or text messaging. Starting is simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Chris aims to make therapy a usable part of a busy life.
How Chris Uses Talk, Thought Work, and Mindfulness Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them decide goals that feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking and behavior patterns. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can reduce worry and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them, helping with stress and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Chris will talk with the client about their goals, history, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods that fit the client's needs and adjust the plan over time based on what works in practice.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants to avoid being on camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing tools between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, travel, or caregiving routines while still working with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English