Dax Johnson

Depression is something we all experience, whether it is for a week, a few months, or multiple years. The hard part is when we get stuck in it and it overwhelms us and infects other areas of our lives such as our professional life and personal life. I work with clients using CBT to help clients find their strengths and successes that they can use as tools to reframe how they approach episodes and bouts of depression to work toward recover and healing.

I use CBT to help clients explore what causes their anxiety, how it causes them anxiety and what is at the deepest root of that anxiety. By doing these things, we can work together to build better coping mechanisms to combat the anxiety to bring it to a manageable level and/or overcome it completely. The methods used and the rate of progress is different for everyone, but the key is being willing to explore the thoughts and feelings surrounding the anxieties and the willingness to change.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy is all about looking toward the future and working from that point of view, rather than looking into the past for solutions to current problems/patterns. The goals here are to help you find your strengths, build up the tools to hone those strengths and to empower you, the client, to create goals and objectives that you can start working towards immediately to solve your problems and accomplish your goals.

Using eclectic therapy is all about the ability to be flexible with the use of multiple theories and interventions for the betterment of you, the client. Sometimes there isn't one singular method that works best in a given situation with a specific person. So, the best way to help in these instances is to pull from a variety of sources and theories to piece together the best treatment plans and interventions that educate, guide, and encourage client growth and change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is all about digging into why we think the way we think and how those thoughts affect our core beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. By honing in our the thought process we can work together with clients to help them determine what it is that they truly believe and think about themselves and how that has dictated their behavior from past to present and then actively working to reframe and change those core beliefs to promote behavioral changes.