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G. M. Johnson, PhD
Dr. Glenn Johnson
G. M. "Dr J" Johnson, Clinical Psychologist, Jamestown, ND. Psychotherapist (adults, couples, adolescents, children), writer, dog enthusiast, artist. Majorly married, 30+ years.
Dr. J is me. I have a PhD in clinical psychology and a penchant for untangling the tangles of life. I am a psychotherapist - a therapist, a counselor, healer, a doctor, a "shrink." I am an untwister of the twisted of life. I am an untwister of the most twisted of the most twisted of life - adults, teenagers, children. I work with all sorts of mental health problems but I have made three areas of psychological practice my specialties - 1) survivors of years of intense, ugly trauma and childhood abuse, 2) children and teenagers struggling with emotional and behavioral issues and the challenges of growing up in these modern times.
I began my training as a psychologist with a focus on individuals struggling with their feelings and their perspective on life after, as children, being raped and otherwise seriously abused over many years by someone they should have been able to trust to protect them. I focused on the emotional issues of adults who had survived abuse and needed to find resolution to the intense questions of self-esteem, self image and safety, and I focused on the emotional issues of children struggling with anger, anxiety, depression and struggles related to dysfunctional families, intense trauma and the genetic and general challenges of development in today's world. I broadened and intensified my training by also focusing on the struggles of schizophrenia - a disorder characterized by great confusion and emotional upset when even the slightest bit stressed.
I have twenty plus years working with people struggling with anxiousness, stress, pain and distress of all kinds - working to untwist some of the most difficult and challenging dents and dings that one can take in life. I am very good at helping untwist thinking and coping strategies that become the cause of chronic emotional and behavioral difficulties.
I have a very positive, practical, logical perspective on struggles and healing. My approach is cognitive behavioral, strategic, practical and positive in general tenor. I find a great deal of humor and delight in life and I enjoy spending time with my hobbies - dogs, my computers, and my thoughts in the service of figuring out to the best of my ability, the possible meaning(s) of life.
I am a serious doctor but I am not really a serious, "normal" doctor in the normal sense of the word "normal" - not normally, anyway, normally. AS a psychologist, I am alloowed by normal society to be a bit strange and weird - a bit on the non-normal side. It is a consequence, too, of being a healer of some of the ugliest, most frightening crimes life inflicts on some people.
I am a real psychologist who really heals real people. I find ways to help people who have been terribly terribly hurt and frightened. I find ways to help them feel powerful and empowered, full of wisdom and strength. I work to heal their anger so they can find and hold onto a sense of faith in their lives. I am very good at this. I am not good at fixing carburators or at capitalism. But I am very good at untwisting life's twists. You can obtain a fairly good "sense" of who I am by glancing through and reading some of my articles and emails in the section on the website called dr. j's shrink-rap articles.
I encourage - I challenge - any and all visitors to look over, read and purchase my work as a means to fostering a greater sense of mental health and a sense that life can be much more manageable and fun from a perspective that is accepting of the possibility that 1) anger, hate and vengeance are wasteful, cancerous emotions and that one can find a way to understand one's life and be wiser and happier by being forgiving of one's mistakes and missteps, 2) fear and anxiety are terrible challenges but are logical - at least to some degree, even when caused by genetics - and more manageable when dealt with with just a tidbit of faith that life might have some real purpose, and 3) it is typically the case that the struggles we face as we go through our lives are generally coping strategies gone goofy and it is by tweaking and identifying one's "normally" under-estimated strengths and resiliencies that the easiest, quickest, shortest-distance-between-two-points-is-a-straight-line means to freedom, empowerment, happiness and control will in most cases be facilitated by fostering strengths.
I like what I do. I love what I do.
This website venture and the publication and sale of some of the hypnosis recordings I create makes it possible to provide services to individuals with crappy or no insurance. I actually live with a great deal of anxiety, depression, stress and pain all around me and though I am very good at maintaining a positive attitude and enjoying life, the photo above is no longer representative of the increasing gray in my moustache and on my head and the increase in lines that have come over the past years. It is still the photo I use on the website because it is on the tapes and CDs. A more representative picture is prominent at my wannabewebster site.
CD and tape sales, donations and other support from this website make possible article writing and provision of psychological services to un- and under-insured children and adults. Webmastery on this site is admittedly at a "don't-quit-your-day-job" level of polish and expertise but is kept in-house to maximize profits. Please be patient. Feel free to ask questions, offer suggestions or make complaints.
Behind the scenes and underlying.
My work, my life and my hypnosis recordings are heavily influenced by my education in and my experiences and observations. My life, my recordings and my work as a therapist are also heavily influenced, motivated and fostered by my luck, my laughter and my loving wife, as well as my active brain, my arts-and-crafty artist's urge, and a love for the game of practical, optimal life-maximizing. My work as a therapist, my thinking of thoughts and my word-weaving wordings are also quite founded on 30+ years of formal education and 50+ years of wondering whys and whats.
My work is a mixing of simple practicality, caring and the valuing happiness and health above anger, vengeance and resentment. My work focuses on practical solutions rather than underlying "complexes." My work focuses on how things are perceived and on using common sense abilities that aren't always thought of. In psychological jargon my work can be described as cognitive-behavioral -- solution-focused cognitive restructuring -- designed using with Milton Erickson -type permissive, indirect and strategic methodologies and perspectives.
The underlying general target goals of my work are long term happiness and a feeling of hope and faith in one's self, faith in one's life and faith in one's ability to grow and learn.
My hypnosis recordings are woven with a focus on basic long-term goal of sustainable happiness based on maximized, practical personal control and influence over self and environment. I do not preach a philosophical or religious outlook beyond simply pointing out that it is very helpful in many ways to have decided on (at least tentatively) how you are going to "believe" or think things work in the "big picture" (e.g., random chance vs. destiny vs. Plan; death; eternity; Purpose vs. no purpose to life). Having a larger view of life can be helpful in reducing distress and keeping up hope because much of life seems sprinkled with episodes of challenge and anxiety and pain that seem terrible while in the midst of them but that later seem advantageous -- almost like having a vaccination shot can seem painful and unsettling at the time but in the long run be an armour against nightmarish catastrophic illnesses.
Head-cleaners hypnosis recordings are for people interested in increasing their sense of self-control, personal power, confidence, faith, patience and hope. Head-cleaners are designed to empower the listener in his or her quest to feel confidently in control of him or her self.
Head-cleaners recordings are verbal tapestries of images, ideas and metaphors. They require some concentration, so people with auditory receptive learning disabilities or learning disabilities that compromise their ability to form concepts may not find my recordings either interesting or helpful.
The recordings are woven and spoken in the real expectation that many people can and will benefit from them. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Please understand that I firmly believe that my hypnosis recordings will work wonderfully for many people. My hypnosis recordings are all used by my patients, family and friends. The advantage of hypnosis tapes or CDs over attending several sessions with an actual hypnotherapist is a) financial and b) convenience of scheduling. The disadvantage is that your experience is not as finely atuned to your particular reactions as you become involved in the hypnosis experience. Though my recordings are designed to be as close to one-size-fits-all, nothing in this world -- and certainly nothing in medicine -- can fully meet that expectation. Purchase a tape or CD and try it. Or purchase several tapes or CDs. If it (or they) doesn't (or don't) work for you -- which should be obvious within a listening or two -- return it (them) within 30 days for a full refund of the price and the shipping and handling to you. Your risk is only the hassle of packaging and paying the shipping back. |
| P.S. Also, please excuse this website for not being as glitzy and polished as most are these days. This is entirely an after-hours enterprise intended both to make my therapy work available to others outside my practice and to engage in a little entrepeneurial enterprise. However, as is obvious from all other aspects of my life, I am much more an artful healer than an artful businessman. Every little thing other than the accepting of payments online is done at my desk in the late night and early morning hours, often when I'm a tad sleep deprived. I'm happy to accept requests for content or suggestions for making things easier to use. I'm very happy to hear about any glitches in the pages. - Dr. J. |
