About Dominique
Dominique Johnson is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Louisiana. She brings nine years of experience in mental health work across independent practice, community mental health, and disability support.
Background and approach
Dominique focuses on helping people untangle stress, anxiety, relationship strains, low self-esteem, and depression. She explains things plainly and aims to make therapy understandable and useful.
Dominique sees many issues as rooted in how people learned to connect with others early in life. She uses a systems perspective to look at a person's story and how past relationships shape present behavior.
Sessions focus on identifying patterns and practicing different ways of relating that feel healthier and more effective. Her work often addresses abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems, and control issues.
She also helps people dealing with divorce and separation, infidelity, loneliness, guilt, shame, body image concerns, and questions about life purpose. Dominique names men's issues among her focus areas and supports those exploring identity and role challenges.
Dominique emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions. She teaches ways to speak and listen so interactions become clearer and less hurtful.
She also offers guidance for managing strong emotions and reducing anxious thinking. People who choose Dominique can expect a direct, compassionate approach and steady collaboration on goals.
She draws on varied experience supervising teams and developing practice procedures to keep therapy organized and consistent. Overall, her aim is to help restore connection and make everyday relationships feel more alive and trustworthy.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Dominique draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that look at how relationships shape people. One common approach focuses on systems thinking - examining patterns learned from past relationships and trying new ways of interacting to change those patterns. This helps with recurring conflicts and communication problems. Another approach centers on attachment and relational work - identifying how fear of abandonment or avoidance affects reactions and learning more supported ways to connect. That work often helps with anxiety, codependency, and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Dominique will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and together they decide what to try first. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helpful and what feels manageable for the client.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for more interactive sessions and role-play, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support, or when someone prefers writing about their experience. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English