Mindfulness therapist Jen Johnson can help you navigate difficult times with greater ease and reconnect with a sense of inner steadiness, clarity, and well-being. My approach integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and evidence-based therapy to support healing from stress, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
Many people come to me after trying traditional talk therapy and feeling like it didn’t fully help—or even left them feeling more overwhelmed. Mindful therapy offers a different pace and approach: one that emphasizes awareness, nervous system regulation, and compassionate understanding of your inner experience.
What is a Mindfulness Therapist?
A mindfulness therapist integrates mindfulness practice into the therapeutic process — helping you develop present-moment awareness, work with your nervous system, and relate to your inner experience with greater clarity, compassion, and ease. Rather than focusing primarily on the past, mindfulness-based therapy emphasizes what is happening now — in your body, your mind, and your life — and supports you in responding to your experience with skill and kindness rather than reactivity.
Mindfulness therapy is grounded in decades of research showing that present-moment awareness supports lasting change — reducing stress and anxiety, building emotional resilience, and cultivating a deeper sense of inner steadiness and wellbeing.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung
Therapy and Coaching with Jen Johnson
Therapy can help you navigate difficult times with greater ease and reconnect with a sense of inner steadiness, clarity, and wellbeing. My approach integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and evidence-based therapy to support healing from stress, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
Many people come to me after trying traditional talk therapy and feeling like it didn’t fully help — or even left them feeling more overwhelmed. Mindfulness therapy offers a different pace and approach: one that emphasizes awareness, nervous system regulation, and compassionate understanding of your inner experience.
I offer online therapy for adults in North Carolina. If you are located outside North Carolina, mindfulness coaching offers a similar depth of support without geographic limitations.
What Therapy Can Help With
- Stress and chronic overwhelm
- Anxiety and emotional distress
- Grief and loss
- Health, chronic illness, and medical trauma
- Climate anxiety and ecological grief
- Climate-related or disaster-related trauma
- Self-criticism and perfectionism
- Creativity-related blocks and emotional overwhelm
- Gifted adults navigating complexity and sensitivity
Therapy is most helpful when you have a mental health concern that requires clinical treatment. If you are looking for support but do not have a diagnosable mental health condition, mindfulness coaching or life coaching may be a better fit.
My Approach to Mindfulness Therapy
My work as a licensed mindfulness therapist is grounded in somatic mindfulness therapy — helping you understand and work with your nervous system, emotions, and thought patterns in real time.
Together we focus on:
- Noticing stress and survival patterns in the body
- Learning regulation skills for anxiety and overwhelm
- Developing greater emotional awareness and resilience
- Creating new internal patterns that support stability and ease
- Developing a regular mindfulness practice and applying it in everyday life
Therapy is not about fixing you. It is about helping you relate to your experience with more clarity, compassion, and choice.
Therapy is helpful when you have a mental health concern that requires treatment. If you do not have a diagnosable mental health condition but are looking for support, you may benefit from mindfulness coaching or life coaching.
Therapeutic Approaches
I draw from an integrative set of approaches, including:
- Somatic Mindfulness Counseling
- Grief Counseling
- Narrative Therapy
- Journal Therapy
- EFT Tapping
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Climate anxiety therapy | Nature Therapy | Ecotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung
Positive Neuroplasticity
Our thoughts and attention patterns shape the brain over time. Positive neuroplasticity practices — integrated into therapy when appropriate — support the development of:
- Greater calm and emotional balance
- Increased resilience and self-trust
- Reduced stress reactivity
- More sustained positive emotional states
These practices support lasting change rather than temporary relief.
Telehealth Therapy in North Carolina
I offer online therapy for adults located in North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham, Wilmington, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, and Asheville.
If you are outside North Carolina, I welcome you to explore mindfulness coaching or Writing as Refuge™ workshops, which are available worldwide via Zoom.
Begin Therapy
If you are considering therapy, I offer a free 15-minute consultation to help us determine whether working together feels like a good fit.