About Charlie
Charlie Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, addiction, mood shifts, and ADHD. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use right away. Charlie aims to make sessions feel straightforward and manageable for someone juggling busy days.
He draws on a background in social work in public systems, including work connected to drug court and juvenile justice.
Background and approach
That experience shaped his approach to behavioral concerns and substance use. He also has a Master of Social Work focused on forensic practice and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Weber State University. In sessions Charlie uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to break problems into clear steps and identify patterns that keep difficulties going.
He blends that with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people pick values and take small consistent actions toward them. Attachment-based work and client-centered methods guide how he builds trust and listens to what matters most to each person. Charlie offers individual therapy and aims to match strategies to each person’s needs.
He usually suggests practical exercises to practice between sessions, simple communication tools, and short skills work for mood or stress management. The focus is on what helps in daily life. People come to him for many concerns including trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping and eating problems, and career stress.
He also supports those managing bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and other complex situations.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people get clearer about what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related frustration, and motivation struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at specific thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and teaches practical tools to change them. It's useful for stress, mood shifts, sleep and eating difficulties, and many day-to-day challenges.
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on improving how people relate and feel safe with others. It can support intimacy issues, communication problems, and patterns rooted in early relationships.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods when needed, and adjust strategies based on what works. Clients and therapist together decide which tools to focus on and how to pace progress.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is best for deeper conversation and guided exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins, and messaging is helpful for short updates or coaching between visits. These formats make scheduling easier and let people fit care into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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