About Johanna
Johanna Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical, everyday steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship problems. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to make starting therapy feel manageable.
She works with concerns such as depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Johanna also supports people facing work stress, parenting strain, sleep and eating challenges, and the ups and downs of life changes.
Background and approach
She includes attention to ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue where relevant. Her approach is collaborative and tailored. Johanna listens to each person’s story, then chooses strategies that fit their goals and circumstances.
Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that add up over time. Johanna brings experience across many areas, including multicultural concerns, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and military-related challenges. She also has familiarity with obsessive-compulsive patterns, personality and phobia-related concerns, and issues like infidelity or jealousy.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and clear goals may find her approach helpful. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space and to adjust the pace to what feels comfortable for each person. Starting therapy is framed as a process that Johanna navigates together with clients.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Johanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete strategies and measurable progress. One common approach emphasizes coping skills for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes to reduce daily overwhelm. This helps with panic, chronic worry, and situations that feel out of control.Another core approach targets addictive behaviors and compulsions by breaking patterns into manageable steps and building alternative routines. This method supports people working to reduce substance use, compulsive actions, or related cycles. Both approaches aim to create short-term wins that build momentum toward larger goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Johanna will talk through your concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods that suit your situation. Together you will adjust strategies as progress is made and new needs emerge.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you work face to face without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into busy days and to keep in touch between sessions. These options make care more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English