About Zakia
Zakia Johnson brings two decades of counseling experience to people seeking steady, practical support. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, who focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and the effects of trauma and loss. Her approach is direct and grounded, aimed at building skills people can use day to day.
She offers short-term and longer-term work depending on what a person needs. Sessions focus on clear goals such as improving mood, coping with life changes, handling anger, or addressing addictive patterns.
Background and approach
Zakia also helps people navigate parenting stress, relationship and communication problems, and challenges tied to attachment or abandonment feelings. Her background includes two decades of service in behavioral and emotional health, with experience providing individual, small group, and family counseling. That experience informs a practical style that emphasizes consistency and accountability.
People can expect an emphasis on developing coping tools and routines that fit their life. Zakia describes her role as planting seeds for growth in different life terrains. She works with clients to identify realistic steps, build new habits, and strengthen resilience.
The work can include skill practice between sessions and straightforward feedback to track progress. Sessions are offered in English and take place through a range of online formats. Zakia aims to help people reach better day-to-day functioning so they can pursue their personal and spiritual goals.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Zakia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills people can use right away. One common approach emphasizes skill building for mood and anxiety management - patients learn concrete strategies for coping with stress, regulating emotions, and breaking unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for depression, anxiety, bipolar mood concerns, and everyday stress.Another strand centers on trauma-informed work that helps people process difficult experiences and reduce symptoms tied to past abuse or post-traumatic stress. Sessions aim to pace work so clients feel able to tolerate new material while learning grounding and regulation tools. These methods are suited for grief, trauma, and major life changes.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist reviews a person’s goals, preferences, and practical needs and recommends techniques that fit. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked and new concerns emerge, so treatment evolves with the client.
Online therapy with Zakia is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English