- Client-Centered Therapy
- CBT techniques
- Guilt and shame focus
About Tonya
Tonya Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 10 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and helping people cope with life changes. She also lists work around family concerns, career stress, and issues like guilt and shame.
She often works with women facing workplace pressure, relationship shifts, and personal transitions. Sessions address feelings of isolation, struggles with self-love, and the aftermath of divorce or separation. She also includes post-traumatic stress and workplace issues among her practice areas.
Tonya uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize the person's perspective and pace. She brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into sessions to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. In practical terms this means talking through what matters now and trying out new ways of thinking and acting between meetings.
Her background spans a decade of clinical work in Texas, helping people untangle complicated emotions and rebuild daily routines. She aims to help clients work through guilt and shame related to choices, identity, faith, or relationships, without promising outcomes.
People who choose her for support can expect direct conversation about current problems, concrete strategies from CBT when useful, and attention to how life roles and work affect mood. To start, clients follow the site's matching and scheduling steps to arrange a first session.
How her approaches work for remote sessions
Tonya uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep discussion focused on the person's priorities and pace. This approach emphasizes listening and reflecting back what matters most, which can help someone who carries guilt or shame feel understood and clarify what they want to change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT sessions tend to include practical exercises and short experiments to test new habits between meetings, which many people find useful for managing anxiety or low mood.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Tonya will work with the client to figure out which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means discussing what feels most helpful, adjusting methods over time, and combining listening with concrete steps when appropriate.
The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm the available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use video or phone options depending on bandwidth and comfort. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to help people carry less burden from guilt and shame while managing everyday life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Additional focuses include divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, post-traumatic stress, self-love, women's issues, and workplace problems.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She combines a person-centered way of listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools. That means she pays attention to what matters to the person and uses CBT to test thoughts and practical steps.
How much experience does she have?
She has 10 years of clinical experience working with adults on emotional and life transition issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from that location.
What languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted.
Which session formats does she offer?
Session formats were not specified in the biography. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.