About Kianni
Kianni Johnson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship stress. She brings six years of clinical experience and focuses on how patterns of behavior and emotion affect daily life. Her sessions emphasize practical tools people can use between meetings.
She works one-on-one to spot unhelpful patterns and build small, manageable changes. The tone in sessions is direct but compassionate, aimed at making progress feel possible.
Background and approach
Kianni pays attention to identity and culture and how those shape experience. She creates space for people to name those influences and use them when making choices. That means clients can address issues like self-esteem, guilt, shame, or control problems with their whole context in view.
Her approach draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior ideas to teach coping skills and new ways of responding. She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when exploring deeper relational or meaning questions. Kianni has worked with concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, mood disorders, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), impulsivity, and self-harm.
She supports people dealing with infidelity, jealousy, family problems, and the effort to build self-love. Overall, Kianni aims to equip people with realistic strategies and steady support so they can manage symptoms, improve relationships, and make lasting change over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting connection and following the client's priorities. In practice that means the therapist listens closely, reflects what’s said, and helps the client lead the goals they want to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches clear, practical skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Those skills translate well to online sessions through worksheets, guided practice, and short homework between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful for strong mood swings, anger, or impulsivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best given a client's symptoms, goals, and day-to-day life. That plan can shift over time as needs change, and different techniques may be combined to match the situation.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that helps, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat fit shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, school, or family obligations while still focusing on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English