About Hope
Hope Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 21 years of professional experience to help people navigate hard moments. She focuses on depression, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with major life changes. Her approach is practical and respectful.
She aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels right for them. She uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build workable habits.
Background and approach
Client-Centered Therapy and Mindfulness techniques shape sessions so the person’s own values and strengths guide the work. Motivational Interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about change. Hope adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
Sessions focus on real problems and clear steps someone can try between meetings. She listens for what matters most and helps people set achievable goals toward feeling steadier and more confident. With experience across varied concerns - including trauma, grief, parenting strain, first responder issues, and compassion fatigue - she brings a steady presence to challenging topics.
She also supports people facing communication breakdowns, divorce or separation, and domestic violence impacts. Based in Missouri, Hope offers sessions in English and uses a mix of video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She describes taking the first step as an act of courage and aims to provide practical support throughout the process.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Hope often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters most and take small, meaningful actions toward those values while accepting unpleasant thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and will adjust methods based on your goals, preferences, and what’s working in sessions. That means trying different techniques and checking in about progress until a useful fit emerges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls are well suited for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in during a break, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress even when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Missouri
- Languages
- English