Catherine Johnston, LPC

Catherine Johnston is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on clear, practical help for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and hard relationship moments. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more in control day to day.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside acceptance-focused and client-centered methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build workable routines. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her toolbox when clients want to strengthen pause-and-plan skills or find internal motivation for change.

Catherine often helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and career or life transitions. She also supports those working through codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and issues tied to substance use. Sessions emphasize small, doable steps that lead to clearer choices and less reactivity.

The practice aims to be practical. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building exercises, and homework that fits real life. Catherine listens for patterns, offers alternatives, and helps people test what works outside sessions.

Her background includes long-term clinical work across many concerns, with an emphasis on restoring function and emotional balance. People who want a calm, steady guide for making changes often find her approach useful.

How Catherine's Approaches Work Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions using CBT often include practical exercises, thought records, and action plans that clients try between appointments to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. Delivered remotely, ACT can guide clients through short mindfulness practices and values-based goal setting that fit daily life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine will discuss goals and preferences during early sessions and adjust methods as needed so the work aligns with what the client wants to achieve. Clients and therapist decide together when to focus on skills, acceptance, or problem-solving.

Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel time. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick ways to process thoughts between sessions or to get steady support without waiting for an appointment.