About Charlie
Charlie Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eleven years of experience. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing changes that feel overwhelming. He also works with those dealing with addiction, mood challenges, trauma, and questions about identity and intimacy.
Charlie uses straightforward talk and practical tools in sessions. He listens first, then helps clients name what matters and set small, doable steps. Sessions focus on building skills to cope with strong feelings and with making decisions that match each person’s values.
Background and approach
Before moving into therapy work, he spent years as a social worker in public systems. That background includes work connected to juvenile courts and drug court settings. Those roles shaped his focus on behavior change, safety, and real-world problem solving.
Charlie’s approach blends several evidence-informed methods. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape patterns. He also uses client-centered listening to keep the work grounded in each person’s goals.
He offers sessions in English and provides phone, video, chat, and text-based options. Charlie holds a Utah LCSW license - UT LCSW 5011958-3501 - and aims to make sessions practical and easy to fit into everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make decisions hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and patterns, and it can help with trust, intimacy, and repeated relationship cycles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then pick or blend methods together. This is a collaborative process that can shift as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or work day and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers typing over speaking. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent and usable in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English