About Tamika
Tamika Johnson greets people who feel overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. She encourages small steps and patience while people work toward better days. Tamika is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years in mental health practice in Texas.
She focuses on practical support as clients name goals. Sessions often start by identifying strengths and small, doable changes. Tamika emphasizes the mind-body-spirit connection and values steady progress over quick fixes.
Background and approach
Tamika uses approaches that match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps when symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems get in the way of daily life.
She also uses emotionally focused and mindfulness-based techniques to help people manage strong feelings, grief, or trauma responses. Motivational interviewing can be part of the work when someone is wrestling with addictions or big life changes and needs help finding internal motivation. Tamika lists specialties that include trauma, ADHD, mood disorders, grief, parenting concerns, relationship struggles, and caregiving stress.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, codependency, domestic violence, and identity questions related to gender or sexual orientation. Her practice aims to build a steady therapeutic relationship where clients feel heard and supported while they try new ways of coping. Tamika works with each person to set clear, achievable steps and to honor progress at every stage.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. It helps build trust, clarify goals, and create a plan that fits the individual’s values and daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors together to reduce anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and unhelpful patterns by practicing new skills and small experiments. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice, name, and shift strong emotions so they can respond differently to relationship pain, grief, or trauma responses.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration can change over time as priorities shift or new issues emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility and can help people stay consistent with the work over weeks and months.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English