Centurion Johnson MHA, LPC, LCPC

 Finding a therapist can feel vulnerable, especially when you have spent years being the person who holds everything together. Centurion Magnum Johnson offers a thoughtful space to explore what is happening beneath the surface—whether that means navigating anxiety, processing trauma, rebuilding trust, or learning to communicate needs more openly. His work combines practical clinical tools with attention to the cultural, relational, and personal experiences that shape each client’s story. 

Clients can expect a collaborative process that respects their pace and goals. Rather than viewing coping patterns in isolation, Centurion helps people understand how those responses developed, where they may now create difficulties, and what healthier alternatives could look like in everyday life. 

Centurion Johnson, MHA, LPC, LCPC 

Licensed Professional Counselor

E: synnsationaljay@gmail.com

P:  913-276-0112 

       Centurion Johnson is the therapist behind The Feelings Brother. As an African American clinician, he brings an intentionally culturally responsive lens to counseling, recognizing that identity, family expectations, race, faith, community, and lived experience may influence both distress and healing. He aims to make therapy approachable for people who have learned to prioritize endurance over emotional support, while welcoming clients from a wide range of backgrounds. 

His therapeutic style is grounded in a balance of empathy and practical action. Sessions may involve exploring early relationship patterns, identifying the impact of difficult experiences, building emotional awareness, and practicing new skills for relationships and daily stress. Faith and spirituality can be incorporated when they are meaningful to the client; they are not presumed to be part of everyone’s treatment. 

Centurion’s work is particularly relevant to clients who want to understand themselves more deeply without losing sight of concrete change. He views therapy as a partnership: clients bring expertise in their own experiences, and the therapist offers clinical structure, perspective, and tools. 

• Individuals seeking support with emotional wellness, identity, life transitions, stress, and past experiences. 
• Men exploring emotional expression, relationship roles, anger, expectations of masculinity, and help-seeking. 
• Couples and partners navigating communication, disconnection, conflict, trust, and attachment needs. 
• Families seeking to understand interaction patterns, boundaries, and intergenerational dynamics. 
• Black and African American clients, Latino clients, and people from other historically underserved communities seeking culturally attentive care. 
• Clients who wish to integrate their own faith or spiritual values into therapy. 

Explore the effects of overwhelming experiences, triggers, protective responses, and the ways trauma can influence self-image and relationships.

Identify worry cycles, physical signs of stress, avoidance, and workable strategies for responding to uncertainty.

Examine recurring conflict, emotional distance, communication habits, attachment needs, and opportunities to rebuild connection.

Make space for loss, identity shifts, and the practical and emotional adjustments that follow significant change.

Support greater emotional vocabulary, self-understanding, vulnerability, and relationship skills without relying on rigid expectations of strength.

Explore inherited beliefs, family roles, boundaries, cultural pressures, and patterns that may continue across generations.

      Centurion describes an integrative, evidence-based approach tailored to the client rather than a single formula. Methods identified in the supplied practice information include:

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): structured trauma-focused treatment when clinically appropriate.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): exploring links among thoughts, emotions, and actions.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): building psychological flexibility and taking values-guided action.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills: strengthening emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
• Attachment-focused interventions: understanding how relational experiences influence expectations, trust, and connection.

     Early sessions focus on understanding what brings the client to therapy, what has already been tried, and what meaningful progress would look like. Depending on the client’s needs, treatment may include mapping recurring patterns, practicing regulation strategies, identifying values, processing trauma, or rehearsing more effective communication. Progress is revisited collaboratively, with attention to how insights translate outside the therapy room.

•  Aetna
• Ambetter
• Blue Cross
• BlueCross and BlueShield
• Carelon Behavioral Health
• Centene
• Cigna and Evernorth
• KanCare
• Magellan
• Medicaid
• New Directions | Lucet
• Optum
• Oscar Health
• Sunflower
• Sunflower Health Plan
• United Medical Resources (UMR)
• UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
• Out of Network  

•  Individual Sessions $100
• Couple Sessions $125
• Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible 

•  Telehealth Missouri and Florida
• Office Location during the week:  Overland Park, KS 66211 
• Office Location on Weekend: 9666 Olive Boulevard, Suite 370, St. Louis, Missouri 63132