Johnnie Kramer graduated from the University of Central Florida with his Bachelor’s in Psychology (2013) and his Master’s in Marriage, Couples, & Family Therapy (2016). Johnnie is passionate about empowering his clients to blaze their own trail to recovery over the traumas they have experienced or the difficulties they are facing. He continuously strives to serves those in need while advocating for positive culture change within our society at large. Johnnie has been working in the field of mental health since 2016, focused primarily on helping individuals overcome relational difficulties through both Individual and Couples Counseling. Johnnie also continues to work as a Trauma-focused Therapist at the Victim Service Center of Central Florida, which is the Rape Crisis Center for Orange, Osceola, and Seminole Counties. During his years of work there, he has developed a thorough understanding of sexual violence, its impact on individuals, couples, and families, and how to walk with survivors in overcoming it. When not working, Johnnie enjoys adventuring in Florida’s outdoors with his wife of four years. He is an avid runner, rock climber, and yogi and cultivates a garden of hot peppers and citrus trees in his backyard.
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Mood Disorders, Trauma and PTSD, Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence
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2431 Aloma Ave, Winter Park, FL 32792Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Trauma-Focused CBT
Many clients enter therapy looking to directly address a specific problem and want specific solutions for that problem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most commonly used form of therapy in such cases. However, as a trauma-specialist, it's important for me to always practice in ways that keep in mind the context — whether social, professional, and especially the embodied/physical context — that the problems we struggle with occur in. Trauma-Focused CBT will help us discuss not only what you can do within yourself to address difficulties that you're facing, but also the ways in which your environment may be contributing to them - and ultimately could help to solve them.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Sometimes the problems we face in life are not easily solved by tweaking our self-talk or by practicing a new skill. Many of life's most difficult issues — such as grieving loved ones, traumatic pasts, or physical/mental disabilities, to name a few examples — can only be traveled through . For these problems, mindfulness presents a scientifically-proven way to change our experience of these difficulties by changing how we view and relate to them. While mindfulness in no way prevents us from trying to change what can be changed, it can help us to stop criticizing or judging ourselves for not changing what cannot be — which then makes it that much easier for us to change the things that we can.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
A form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach to dealing with the distress caused by difficult emotions or relationships in our lives. DBT can provide us with a pre-made toolbox of skills to learn and pull from when we need a new way of dealing with a difficult person or circumstance — especially when that person or circumstance is something we don't like within ourselves. Focusing on the balance (or — in our fancy jargon — the dialectic) between acceptance and change, the goal of DBT is to help you make for yourself a life worth living. And helping you make that life should always be what therapy is about.