About Vanessa
Vanessa Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. She trained in psychology and professional counseling and has worked in a range of settings across Georgia. Vanessa brings a calm, practical approach to sessions and focuses on clear goals clients can act on.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set manageable steps and track progress.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize practical strategies for everyday problems. Vanessa has experience in residential treatment centers, substance use counseling within criminal justice settings, and managed care environments. She has supported people dealing with addictions, stress, anxiety, anger, and self-esteem concerns.
She also helps with parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and career or life transition struggles. Work with young adults and people facing family problems is a common part of her background. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, mixing coaching elements with therapeutic tools.
She helps people build skills they can use between sessions. She offers services in English and accepts clients from outside the United States. Session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Vanessa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and practice new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, anger, and patterns that affect daily life.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and build steps that fit into a person's routine. This approach is useful when someone wants to make concrete changes quickly and track progress week to week.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss needs, preferences, and goals and try methods that feel like a good fit. Adjustments are made along the way so sessions remain useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let clients and therapists work face to face, phone sessions use less bandwidth for easier check-ins, live chat supports shorter, focused exchanges, and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family obligations while maintaining consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English