Cara Harper
Compassionate practical help for daily life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cara
Cara Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of clinical experience in Georgia. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting concerns, and anger. Cara aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are overwhelmed by life changes.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared plainly. Cara’s background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as trauma, grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She also addresses blended family challenges, chronic illness and pain, and process addictions like gambling or compulsive behaviors. Her practice brings together practical tools and steady support to help clients try new ways of coping. In sessions she uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen deeply and follow each person’s goals.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Motivational Interviewing is used when clients want support making changes around addiction, routines, or motivation. Cara works with people who want to improve relationships, manage strong emotions, or find clearer life purpose.
She talks plainly, avoids jargon, and helps clients set realistic steps they can try between sessions. Her approach balances empathy with concrete strategies. As an LPC licensed in Georgia (GA LPC LPC003597), Cara offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
How Cara’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening first and letting the client guide the conversation. It helps when someone needs a caring space to sort through feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep or break unhelpful habits by changing thinking and behavior step by step.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often used for addictions or when someone feels stuck and needs help building motivation for new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cara will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. She adjusts strategies as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible. These options allow conversations from home, fit around busy schedules, and let people use the format that feels easiest for them. Many clients find that consistent, shorter check-ins by chat or messaging help keep progress on track between longer video or phone sessions.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Cara
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- Stop at any point