About Karl
Karl Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twelve years of practice in Michigan. He guides people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, depression, and addiction concerns. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use each day.
Karl draws on several therapeutic styles to match each person's needs rather than using one fixed method. Sessions are collaborative and interactive. He helps clients set concrete goals and tries techniques that fit their situation.
Background and approach
He has worked across individual and relationship concerns and has experience helping people facing grief, trauma, career shifts, and chronic health challenges. That background informs an approach that blends emotion-focused work with behavioral tools. In sessions Karl tends to focus on improving communication, building coping skills, and changing small habits that affect mood and functioning.
He pays attention to attachment and trust patterns when relationships are part of the work. Practical homework and short-term skills often accompany deeper conversations. Karl encourages clients to notice what matters to them and to try actions that align with those values.
He also supports people working through parenting stress, sleep or eating struggles, and issues like ADHD or compassion fatigue. He meets people where they are and adjusts pace to fit each person. Starting therapy is framed as a courageous step.
Karl aims to create an atmosphere of respect and steady encouragement while helping clients rebuild confidence and make meaningful changes.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name their values and take small steps that match those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and trust in relationships and helps people shift how they react and relate to others. It can be helpful when intimacy, communication, or long-standing relational patterns are part of the concern. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable pieces and teaches practical strategies to change them; it often works well for anxiety, mood, and sleep or eating problems.Finding the right approach often happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative process helps land on methods that feel useful and realistic for the person's life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone needs a quieter check-in. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English