Therapy

Therapy can help you to navigate difficult times with greater ease and recover a sense of inner peace and joy. If you are experiencing anxiety, stress, grief, loss, illness, medical trauma, fatigue, or self-criticism, I will teach you how mindful therapy can help you to create a sense of inner refuge. Sometimes people want to work with me because they have tried traditional talk therapy, and it made them feel worse, or they didn’t make the progress they hoped for.

I’ll teach you skills for coping with life’s challenges and difficult times so that things don’t feel so overwhelming. And I’ll teach you how to feel calmer and more resilient. When you work with me, you will learn skills to help you reclaim a sense of agency over your overall well-being and enjoy a greater sense of inner calm and joy.

Counseling Areas of Speciality:

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Grief, loss
• Gifted adults
• Chronic Illness
• Medical trauma, climate disaster trauma
• Self-criticism, perfectionism
• Creativity
• Mindfulness, Meditation

Counseling Approaches:

My work is a blend of the following approaches:

Grief Counseling
Journal Therapy / Writing Therapy
Somatic Mindfulness Therapy
Cognitive Behavior Therapy / CBT
Narrative therapy

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation so that we can see if we would work well together.

Somatic Mindful Therapy

All of my work as a counselor is grounded in mindful therapy. In my 35+ years of working as a counselor and mindfulness teacher, I have found that mindfulness is one of the most powerful healing tools. Mindful therapy has been shown to increase positive emotions and experiences, including a greater sense of calm, inner peace, joy, and well-being. It has also been shown to reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, grief, pain, insomnia, gastrointestinal disorders, and other medical disorders. It is estimated that 90% of illnesses are stress related, and practicing mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress.

I offer mindful therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR to teach you mindfulness exercises for healing from stress, loss, and anxiety and coping with chronic illness.

My work as a mindful therapist is about helping you to know and understand the mental patterns that can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression and teaching you how to develop new habits and mindfulness exercises that promote greater inner peace and joy.

Somatic therapy and mindful therapy can help you to learn how to read your nervous system, recognize when you’re amped up or feeling stuck frozen, and learn how to get yourself back to a greater sense of calm, happiness, and inner safety and security.

I also offer a number of additional modalities to assist you, including grief counseling, narrative therapy, CBT, positive psychology, and positive neuroplasticity training.

Positive Neuroplasticity Training – Rewire Your Brain

Our thoughts can literally shape the structure of our brain. Positive neuroplasticity training teaches you how to rewire your brain for a greater sense of calm, happiness, confidence, inner strength, and resilience.

Neuroplasticity training can also be used to support increased positive emotional states and resilience and to reduce physical and emotional pain.

Telehealth Therapy for adults living in North Carolina- Raleigh, Durham, and Wilmington.

Schedule a Free Consultation with Jen Johnson

I offer a free 15-minute consultation for prospective new clients so that we can see if we would work well together.