About Chad
Chad Johnson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. He brings 19 years of clinical experience and a straightforward, supportive approach to sessions.
Background and approach
Chad works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and issues around identity and life purpose. He aims to listen first and understand each person’s story before suggesting changes.
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Chad uses talking, problem-solving, and goal-setting to help people find clearer next steps.
Chad draws on client-centered work to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thinking that make feelings worse.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change and needs help finding their own reasons to try something different. Many people come for help with family conflict, blended family issues, or problems tied to upbringing and communication.
He also supports those struggling with trauma, dissociation, impulsivity, or the emotional fallout from divorce and infidelity. Chad pays attention to practical skills for coping with life changes and workplace or caregiver stress.
In sessions he focuses on small, achievable steps and clear communication. He helps people track progress and adjust plans when needed.
Chad works from Missouri and offers a mix of session formats to fit different schedules.
Approaches that translate well online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. It helps people feel understood and decide their own direction, which is easy to do in video or phone sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well in short video lessons or message-based check-ins. Motivational interviewing uses guided questions to help someone find personal reasons to change and is useful during single sessions or ongoing messaging when someone feels unsure about the next step.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Chad treats this as a collaboration - he will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan over time. The aim is to find what actually helps in day-to-day life rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use worksheets, screen-sharing, and face-to-face discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it simple to keep momentum between meetings and to use brief check-ins during a busy week. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules while staying focused on clear goals and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English