Through my 15+ years in the mental health sphere, I have learned how deeply psychological processes can disrupt life. Oftentimes, therapeutic progress has neglected how intricately interwoven are the body, soul, and spirit. Intersecting all three in sessions, I endeavor to proactively support individuals in developing their wellness lifestyle in order to be best informed when future barriers and areas of stuck-ness in life occur.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Progress begins with the process of partnership. In collaboration with you, I guide you on a transformative journey toward accessing your authentic, inner power, and growth. I believe in the power of unveiling one's authentic self and harnessing their inherent strengths to achieve personal and professional fulfillment.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a therapist who views clients through a cultural lens, it is paramount for me to understand client perspective of their situation and support them in developing tools, strategies, techniques specific to their cultural dynamics and that celebrate their unique diversity: mind, body, and spirit.
I am also a clinician who is personable. We will likely laugh in our sessions. If you are a spiritual person, we may even pray together.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I work collaboratively with clients to help them identify their strengths, overcome limiting beliefs, and develop practical strategies for moving their life in the direction they desire. I am committed to providing a supportive and emotionally safe space for clients to dive into the process.
About Walanda Johnson
Appointments
Virtual
My treatment methods
Attachment-based
Attachment-based work explores the way we seek closeness to others when we are in distress. Along with client, I explore client attachment roots and review current patterns in relationships to address issues in connecting with others as well as self-esteem, worldview, and how it impacts your relationships with others. By identifying and learning one's attachment style and the characteristics of others, clients are given the tools to build healthier relationships.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Person-centered approaches puts the client at the center of the therapeutic process. By trusting the client as the expert of self, I believe clients have what they need to achieve the life they seek and it is the challenges of life that brings self-doubt. Using this method, along with the others identified, I flow and balance with client needs expressed in therapy, empower and bring awareness to client strengths and progress, while highlighting their capabilities and inner-working processes to develop solutions for their life.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is the process of exploring and exploring unhealthy thoughts (beliefs) that lead to undesired and poor behaviors and feelings. While exploring client history and throughout sessions, clients will learn to identify and challenge negative thinking patterns and develop processes to re-route thoughts to develop healthier and productive thoughts of self, others, and their present.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
A brief solutions-focused lens uses the perspective of past successes in charting the way toward solutions in current challenges. Through this method, we explore the "formula(s)" (as I like to call it) that led to past success in challenging situations and explore if/how it can be tweaked to meet current needs. This is also an empowering approach as we typically move so quickly past achievements and rarely reflect on how much we gained in the process.
Multicultural
The multicultural lens embraces the cultural diversity within an individual and how their uniqueness at times has contributed to feelings of "otherness" within their larger community/society. Whether it is race, gender, ability, sexuality, economic, or religious, together, I work alongside clients to help them process through their feelings and develop strategies to help them create a sense of belonging and acceptance.
