Anita Harris
Practical counseling focused on real-life change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Anita
Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience. She uses a solution-oriented approach that helps people identify and build on their strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use day to day.
Anita blends structured skill teaching with supportive coaching to help people move toward their goals. She draws heavily on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaching concrete skills to manage stress, strong emotions, and difficult moments.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy inform how she helps clients reframe thoughts and clarify values. Anita also uses a client-centered stance, listening closely and adjusting to each person’s needs. Common concerns Anita addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes.
She also works with issues such as chronic illness, control problems, family of origin wounds, and compassion fatigue. The work often combines skill practice, problem-solving, and direct feedback. Her style mixes encouragement with honest challenge.
She offers guidance and asks questions that push toward new ways of handling stuck patterns. Clients learn tools to get through hard times and to make clearer choices about what matters to them. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Anita supports people in English and practices across Missouri, helping them find workable strategies for everyday life.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters and take small committed steps toward those values. It focuses less on eliminating uncomfortable feelings and more on living a meaningful life in spite of them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving stress tolerance during hard moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time so it fits real life needs.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for parents and busy schedules, letting people keep momentum between in-person obligations. Using a mix of formats makes it easier to practice skills when they matter most and to stay connected to a licensed professional from home or work.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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