About John
John Johnson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. He brings a grounded, somatic-informed approach and a calm presence to sessions. He listens closely and helps people find ways to feel steadier in their bodies and daily lives.
He grew up in New York City and has lived in many places while working as a teacher, dog trainer, and performer. Those roles shaped how he pays attention to stories, movement, and expression.
Background and approach
He has also run businesses and coached business owners, which informs his practical focus on life and work concerns. John describes himself as a wounded healer who has worked through his own difficult experiences. He shares that history honestly and uses body-centered methods alongside talk work.
This combination often helps when problems feel stuck in the body or when trauma, stress, pain, or grief are involved. His practice includes helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also supports people with parenting strain, addiction and recovery issues, career questions, and life transitions.
Additional focus areas include chronic illness and caregiver stress, grief and end-of-life matters, and concerns about control, guilt, or shame. John uses a mix of approaches such as somatic work, client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, narrative techniques, and the Gottman Method for relationship skills.
He aims to be a steady witness, help clarify goals, and offer practical tools people can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and embodied change
John blends somatic-informed work and client-centered therapy to help people reconnect with sensations in the body and describe what matters most to them. Somatic-informed work focuses on bodily awareness and gentle movement or breath to reduce tension and help with trauma, chronic pain, anxiety, and stress. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience; the therapist listens without judgment and helps the person find their own path forward.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical coping skills for everyday problems like anxiety, sleep, or mood. These approaches are offered collaboratively - the therapist and client decide together which methods fit the person's goals, needs, and comfort level. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video and phone allow real-time conversation and exercises, while chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when scheduling is tight. This range of formats helps people stay connected to therapy during busy or challenging times and supports continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English