About Zakia
Zakia Johnson is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She practices in Maryland and offers compassionate, steady guidance for common and complex concerns. Her approach aims to help clients build skills they can use outside of sessions.
Zakia focuses on stress, anxiety, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with ADHD, grief, addiction, and struggles around self-esteem and identity.
Background and approach
Her work covers challenges related to relationships, parenting stress, career transitions, and major life changes. She prefers clear, practical steps in therapy. Sessions often include talking through patterns, learning coping skills, and setting small goals.
Zakia emphasizes consistency and accountability so progress continues between meetings. Her practice pays attention to attachment and communication issues, abandonment wounds, and feelings of emptiness. She also addresses postpartum and pregnancy-related emotional challenges, forgiveness work, and self-love building.
Clients can expect straightforward guidance aimed at improving day-to-day functioning. Zakia offers several session formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who choose her work with a clinician who aims to help them cultivate tools for growth across many life situations.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many therapists use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach practical tools people can use every day. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and mood symptoms by identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing new behaviors to reduce distress. This helps with stress, depression, and mood regulation.Another approach concentrates on trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful events at a manageable pace while restoring a sense of safety and control. This work often includes grounding techniques and pacing to reduce overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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