- Years in practice
- 21
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Texas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
- Focus
- Career difficulties
About Hope
Hope Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping adults facing common life strains. She focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and rebuild confidence. Many who reach out are dealing with relationship trouble, parenting challenges, career shifts, or grief.
Hope offers calm, respectful support and straightforward guidance. Hope uses evidence-informed approaches to shape each session. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are added when useful to build focus and sustain change. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Hope listens first, then helps set simple, achievable goals.
She works with clients on communication problems, coping with life changes, stress, and burnout from demanding jobs or caregiving roles. Her background includes work across community and clinical settings in Texas and Missouri. Hope adapts language and pace to each person's needs and cultural context.
She treats concerns related to trauma, domestic violence, bipolar mood shifts, and compassion fatigue with care. Hope also supports people navigating separation and divorce, intimacy concerns, LGBT issues, and women's health matters. She aims to create a practical plan clients can use between sessions to build stability and move toward their priorities.
What Hope works with
Everything Hope lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Hope helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Women's issues
Approaches Hope lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Hope commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. ACT helps people name what matters to them and take small actions that match those values, which can help with parenting stress and life changes. CBT focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to keep conversations collaborative and focused on the client's goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work together; the therapist will help choose and adjust methods based on your needs and preferences so sessions feel useful and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face connection and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, short coaching-style conversations, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
Questions people ask about Hope
What kinds of problems can this therapist help with?
Hope works with relationship issues, self-esteem concerns, career changes, stress and anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting questions, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar.
What is her style or therapeutic approach?
She uses an approachable, goal-focused style that blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, client-centered care, and motivational interviewing to fit each person's needs.
How long has she practiced?
Hope has 21 years of professional experience working in community and clinical settings across Texas and Missouri.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW and holds licensure in Texas and Missouri. Her practice is listed in Missouri.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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