About Makeesa
Makeesa Johnson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 10 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, struggling in relationships, grieving a loss, or facing parenting challenges. Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She adapts conversations and care to each person's needs instead of using one fixed method. Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes, and steady progress.
Background and approach
Makeesa aims to help clients build coping skills for day-to-day life and handle big transitions more confidently. People often seek her help for caregiver stress, communication problems, family difficulties, and the emotional impact of domestic violence or sexual assault. She also supports those carrying guilt, shame, or symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and those working on self-love and women's issues.
Her approach is down-to-earth and practical. Makeesa listens, helps clarify what matters most, and offers tools that fit a person’s routine. She encourages clients to try new strategies between sessions and checks what is working.
Sessions are offered in English and are scheduled around each person's needs. The therapist uses multiple online formats so people can choose what fits them best. Makeesa emphasizes collaboration and steady steps toward a more manageable life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many clients benefit from proven therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and coping. One common approach emphasizes learning practical coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as breathing methods, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools aim to reduce day-to-day distress and improve functioning.Another approach focuses on processing grief and trauma by helping people name feelings, create manageable plans for difficult moments, and rebuild routines. This work often includes strategies for reducing shame and strengthening self-compassion, which can help after sexual assault, domestic violence, or loss.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which techniques fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying methods, adjusting what isn't working, and setting clear short-term aims together.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into short breaks or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people choose the format that works best for them.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English