Johnna Turnage, LPC, LPCC

Johnna Turnage is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with more than 20 years of experience. She offers support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and coping with life changes, including concerns that arise during midlife. She uses a warm, interactive approach to help people regain balance and clarity.

Her background includes school guidance counseling, college advising, individual and group counseling, substance-related work, and nonmedical military family life counseling. She has worked across age groups and with diverse communities, and she notes particular interest in helping children, adults aged 18 to 54, and senior adults.

In sessions she focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She encourages mindset shifts and small behavior changes that add up over time. Conversations tend to be open and engaging, with attention to immediate needs and goals.

She draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs. Techniques can include exploring emotions, clarifying thoughts and patterns, and identifying concrete strategies for coping and decision making. Her style is collaborative and hopeful, aimed at helping people move toward choices that feel more manageable.

People often come for help with family stress, caregiving strain, life transitions, and difficulties like addiction or relationship changes. She aims to help each person find realistic steps for improvement and to support them through setbacks and progress.

Johnna holds licenses in Tennessee and Kentucky as LPC and LPCC. Her practice emphasizes straightforward conversation, practical tools, and steady support as people work through change.

How her approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. It helps by creating space to talk things through and by encouraging the client to identify their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and understand strong feelings and the ways these feelings affect relationships and decisions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and choose methods together based on the person's needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time as progress and priorities change.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and reducing travel time. Online sessions can make it easier to check in during a lunch break, have a shorter focused meeting when energy is low, or continue work while managing caregiving responsibilities. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm which formats are offered before booking to ensure they fit daily routines and technical needs.