About Nathaniel
Nathaniel Johnston is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 12 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and symptoms related to ADHD, and supports those facing addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. He takes a straightforward, respectful approach so clients can begin making small changes quickly.
He focuses on practical skills for day-to-day life. Sessions often include learning breathing and grounding tools, restructuring unhelpful thoughts, and building routines for better sleep and focus.
Background and approach
He adapts the pace to each person so work can fit around school, jobs, or caregiving demands. Nathaniel blends several therapy styles to match a person’s needs. He uses client-centered listening to understand priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge patterns, and acceptance-based practices to reduce avoidance.
This flexible mix helps people facing mood shifts, anger, or trouble with concentration and motivation. He also supports those dealing with identity and attachment questions, body image, chronic health challenges, and career stress. Conversations are goal-focused and practical, with check-ins on progress and adjustments to the plan as needed.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and better daily functioning. For someone ready to try online options, Nathaniel offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their routine.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then move toward actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, teaching practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build better habits for mood and sleep. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience through attentive listening and collaboration so goals come from what matters most to the client.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences during early sessions and suggest which methods to prioritize. This is a collaborative process and the plan can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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