Katherine Johns, LCMHC

Katherine Johns is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 28 years of experience helping people navigate grief, life stressors, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and the effects of trauma and childhood abuse. She brings a long history of work with adults, children, couples, and families and has supported clients through marital difficulties, parenting concerns, childhood behavior problems, and a wide range of emotional challenges. Katherine holds the LCMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and she is licensed in multiple states including North Carolina.

Katherine strives to create an open, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored honestly. Her approach treats the client as a full partner in counseling - she honors each person’s perspective and believes that people are the experts on themselves. Drawing on an integrated model that combines diverse theories and techniques, she adapts interventions to fit each person’s needs and to build on existing strengths and resources.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, and coping with life changes, with additional attention to attachment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, narcissism, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress, self-love, sexual assault and abuse, sexuality, social anxiety and phobia, and women’s issues. Katherine emphasizes collaborative goal-setting and practical strategies to help people move toward the changes they want. She recognizes that seeking support takes courage and honors that step in each person’s journey.