“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
About Morgan
Morgan Johnson, MA is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), speaker, and author in Fort Worth, Texas. She received a BA in Psychology from Wake Forest University (2010), and completed a MA in Counseling at St. Edward's University (2013). Her first book, Rebuilding Trust, was published in 2022, and she also works as an adjunct professor. As a clinician, Morgan brings a fun, engaging energy to her work. She’s trained in Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Method Couples Therapy, with a focus on intimacy and building trust between partners. She also integrates into her work: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), and Imago Therapy. Clients appreciate her direct, experiential style of helping relationships discover new possibilities. Morgan currently provides counseling primarily for individuals healing through clinical burnout, as well as relational betrayal (e.g., infidelity). She has supported relationships rebuilding trust for almost a decade and still offers intensive weekend workshops for couples.
What i believe
Bonding Science, informed by Attachment Theory and disciplines like Interpersonal Neurobiology, has lead me to believe humans are wired to explore, grow, and heal through loving connection and emotionally attuned co-regulation. Dr. Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy, points out that we are "bonding mammals;" we evolved a profound need for a safe haven and secure base with trusted others. Learn more.
I view my role as supporting clients to tap into this innate human capacity for balance, healing, and transformation, and to understand and address any barriers or blocks that might be getting in the way of or limiting their natural abilities to trust, nurture each other, and connect intimately.
Relationship is a constant, ongoing process of connection, disconnection, and reconnection, according to Dr. Jean Baker Miller, founder of Relational-Cultural Therapy. Counseling frequently fails when practitioners try to just teach communication skills training and attempt to problem-solve unsolvable problems without supporting clients to stay close during this inevitable relational cycle.
I see conflict as natural and health-promoting if no one is being harmed, so we don't waste time trying to prevent disconnection in counseling work; instead, we prioritize strengthening partners' abilities to make emotional repairs and reconnect. I don't believe couples should stay in therapy forever; if I've done my job the way I intend, clients tune into their innate abilities to bond and nurture each other, achieve their goals, and then ultimately find me no longer necessary.
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“So what does it take to be a good therapist? First of all, you must love doing therapy. You must believe in your own creative power to put things together with vision and insight. You must have confidence in your understanding of people involved. You must love the drama and be fascinated with the sudden revelations that bring enormous changes. You must stand for truth and be able to question everything, down to everyone’s secret motives. You must love humanity and be willing to empathise with all those who suffer, to get inside their skin and see the world through their eyes. You must dream and follow your imagination wherever it leads. You must love humour for it restores balance. You must delight in language and all it’s nuances. You must be sensitive to life’s contradictions and always suspicious that things aren’t always what they seem. You must be brave and audacious, and tolerate ridicule. And most of all, you must be brave enough to provide the spark that bridges the gap between limitations and possibilities, knowing that there’s a great deal to human beings, so a great deal can be made out of them. They don’t have to stay the way they are now and we don’t have to see them only as they are now, but also, as they might become.”