Fquira Johannes, LCSW

Fquira Johannes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress, anxiety, addiction, mood struggles, and life transitions. Her approach centers on practical steps that make day-to-day living easier. She aims to partner with each person so showing up to sessions becomes a sustainable habit.

Johannes treats a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar mood issues, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related struggles. She also supports people facing eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and challenges around body image, abandonment, and family-of-origin issues. Work on career stress, communication problems, and coping with major changes is part of her practice.

Her style is client-centered: she treats the person in the room as the expert on their own life and adapts techniques around each person’s needs. She frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people change thinking patterns and build new habits. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas also appear in sessions when useful.

Johannes brings practical tools into therapy, such as exercises and visual aids when they help clarify a point. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and checks progress regularly. Sessions include time to notice what’s working and what needs adjusting.

Based in North Carolina, she offers work that respects each person’s pace and goals. People can expect straightforward language, clear planning, and a focus on everyday habits and thoughts that shape how life feels.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities and uses listening and reflection to shape sessions. This approach helps people clarify what matters and set realistic next steps for daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. In online sessions this often looks like reviewing short exercises, tracking patterns during the week, and trying new behaviors between meetings.

Motivational Interviewing is collaborative and forward-looking. It helps people find their own reasons for change and boosts motivation when ambivalence gets in the way. That can be useful for addiction, health behavior changes, and career or life transitions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust plans when something is not helpful. That collaborative process helps match interventions to real needs.

If you prefer online sessions, confirm the available formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten commutes, allow quicker check-ins between tasks, and reduce the need to be on camera for every meeting. These practical benefits often help people keep momentum while they work on thoughts and everyday habits.