Maya Johnson, LMHC

Maya Johnson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana who brings six years of clinical experience to her telehealth practice. She works with adolescents and adults, including college students and survivors of domestic violence, helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, self-esteem concerns, and career-related transitions. Maya combines creative and evidence-based methods to support healing of the mind and body, using expressive arts and play-based techniques to help clients access emotions and build coping skills through nonverbal and experiential processes.

For clients seeking targeted anxiety work, she employs exposure and response prevention (ERP) to address persistent fear patterns and reduce avoidance. When deeper symbolic exploration is helpful, Maya incorporates sand tray therapy as a way to process trauma and relational themes through imagery. Her practice also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, body image and codependency, communication and control challenges, and the emotional impacts of fatherhood, guilt, shame, isolation, and jealousy.

Maya offers telehealth appointments by appointment only and provides services for individuals in Indiana as well as those in Tennessee and Michigan. She welcomes people who are ready to begin a healing journey and focuses on practical coping strategies, trauma processing, and relational growth to support long-term wellbeing.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Flexible Online Care

Maya Johnson integrates expressive arts therapy and exposure and response prevention into her online practice. Expressive arts therapy uses creative activities - such as drawing, movement, or storytelling - to help clients access feelings that can be hard to name and to build new ways of coping with stress, self-esteem, and trauma. Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a structured approach for addressing anxiety-driven avoidance and repetitive coping behaviors by gradually facing feared thoughts or situations while learning new responses. Sand tray therapy is also available when symbolic, nonverbal exploration supports healing; it allows clients to arrange miniature figures and scenes that reveal themes related to relationships, loss, or inner conflict.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Maya collaborates with each person to determine the best fit based on their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative stance allows adjustments over time as progress unfolds and priorities shift.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility and accessibility for busy schedules, students, caregivers, and people living across different areas. Licensed professionals can provide consistent care without requiring travel, making it easier to maintain regular sessions and to integrate therapeutic work into everyday life.