About Nathaniel
Nathaniel Johnston is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and depression. He also supports people facing relationship challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, and career stress. Nathaniel works with clients who want practical coping skills and clearer direction during life changes.
He uses straightforward, person-focused conversations to identify what matters most to each client.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, goal setting, and steps clients can try between meetings. Nathaniel adapts the pace and length of work to match each person's needs, whether they want shorter-term support or ongoing therapy. His background includes work with athletes at high-school, college, and professional levels on performance and well-being.
He draws on a mix of approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts, settle strong emotions, and strengthen meaningful relationships. Nathaniel explains techniques in plain language and checks in frequently to make sure they feel useful. People who come to him for help can expect a respectful, calm approach that focuses on practical change.
He listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps clients try new options. Nathaniel aims to make therapy a collaborative process where people leave sessions with clear next steps. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
He holds a Florida LMHC credential and has worked in the field for over a decade.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, depression, or sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals first and uses open listening to help them find their own solutions.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what works. That way the approach evolves to fit the person's real needs and preferences rather than being fixed in advance.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more accessible and flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing coaching or quick reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up tasks, and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English