Harold Eckholm
Compassionate, practical help for family stress
- Credentials
- LPC, LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Harold
Harold Eckholm is a licensed therapist who blends practical talk therapy with relationship-focused approaches. He holds LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) credentials and brings thirty years of experience to sessions. He meets people where they are and focuses on clear, workable steps rather than jargon.
Parents and family members often seek him out for help with family stress and relationship strain. He has a long history supporting people with addictions and substance concerns.
Background and approach
He also helps people facing trauma, anxiety, and parenting challenges. Sessions emphasize open listening, steady guidance, and realistic goals that clients can use at home. Harold uses attachment-based ideas to look at how patterns in family life repeat across generations.
He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help change thoughts and habits that cause stress. These methods are paired with client-centered listening to keep each plan grounded in a person’s values. He has worked across many family issues including adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and separation or divorce.
He also addresses communication breakdowns, codependency, and forgiveness work. The aim is to help families find clearer ways to talk and connect. Sessions are offered in English and are provided online by video, phone, chat, or text.
Harold practices in Arizona and maintains professional licenses in both Arizona and Virginia. He encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed by parenting or family problems to reach out and explore options.
How relationship and behavior approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns shape current family life and relationship habits. Online sessions use discussion and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavior changes between meetings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening without pressure and building goals from what matters to the person. The therapist uses this approach to keep the work grounded in each family’s values and priorities.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and help decide which methods fit your needs and goals. That collaborative process can shift over time as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy families. Video calls let people speak face-to-face from home, while phone sessions can work when video is not possible. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or share updates quickly. These formats help make consistent progress without needing travel time, and they let licensed professionals tailor sessions to a family’s schedule and daily life.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Harold
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point