Molly Johnson

I believe in the power of meeting one on one with individuals to help them become who they really want to be. In today's world, we don't sit still long enough to know ourselves and this makes it difficult to achieve intimacy (with ourselves first, and others second). When you offer me the privilege of sitting with you in the truly terrible and the truly beautiful- I take that seriously and I am fully engaged in helping you sit with yourself and know yourself to enhance your intimacy with yourself and others.

Divorce is painful and messy and hard. Moving forward is scary and a jolting back and forth process. I help you mourn the loss of the death of a part of yourself. As you spiral out, you will not be alone in that. I'll help you navigate creating a new life and new patterns when the time is right. You are not crazy. You are not destined for failure. You can heal. You can love deeply.

If you are not present in the moment during therapy, then it doesn't really do much good! I bring the focus back to the present, to what you are feeling, thinking, and experiencing right now. This helps us to work through it, rather than avoid it.

I utilize techniques to help you experience your emotions in session- and then you'll learn how to manage them. You won't control, stuff, or explode, but you'll manage your emotions, gaining the information that they bring to you and honoring the experience you have of them in your body.

Doing premarital counseling is sometimes very difficult and scary and can be exciting as well! My training is in marriage and family therapy, and so I help you look at the entirety of your lives systemically. Combining two existences into one is complex. I can help you navigate the roller coaster.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This technique uses eye movements, or across the body movements (known as bi-lateral stimulation) in order to release trauma that has gotten stuck within the body. It allows us to desensitize ourselves to triggers that are powerful reminders of trauma, in order to place the trauma into the greater story of our lives so that we can continue living, rather than just surviving. EMDR has been shown to be especially helpful with PTSD.

You never quite feel safe during sex, you flinch when you think about intimacy, or in the reverse, maybe you have sex to regain the feeling of control, it feels like it can’t have power over you if you’re saying “yes” this time. You might wake up in the morning exhausted from your dreams during the night. You might still have sex or be intimate, but you feel disconnected. You avoid sex altogether. It doesn't have to be this way. You can heal and have a healthy sex life.

Nightmares. Anxiety. Panic Attacks. One little thing can set off your whole day. In some ways, it doesn't really matter what started it all. What matters is that you have survived already. You have all the resources you need to get through this, they just need to be tapped into. The body and the mind are deeply connected. I want you to be able to heal. I want you to have choices again. It takes some deep work, but you can get there.

You feel the impact of abuse daily, even if you try to ignore it. Perhaps you had a relationship that went south very quickly, and you didn't know what to do. You may have been in a toxic household growing up. But now, in all your relationships, you don't trust them, you don't trust yourself. You're never sure if what you're seeing is a "red flag" or if it's understandable behavior given the situation. You find yourself questioning everything all the time. It doesn't have to be this way.