Jason Harper
Compassionate counseling for families and adults
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jason
Jason Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. He holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has six years of experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, substance concerns, parenting challenges, and family issues.
He also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, sleep problems, career stress, and relationship conflicts. Jason keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He uses clear, everyday language and focuses on small, doable steps families and individuals can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He listens first to understand each person’s situation before suggesting tools or strategies. His approach draws on client-centered methods that follow the person's pace and priorities. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and when useful adds motivational interviewing to support change.
He blends mindfulness and existential ideas to help clients find meaning and stay present during hard times. Jason has worked with a wide range of concerns including addiction recovery, ADHD, parenting stress, intimacy and relationship struggles, and caregiver fatigue. He has experience with blended families, attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness, and aging-related concerns.
Sessions can include practical skill-building, coaching around life transitions, and strategies for coping during crises. He aims to help clients build confidence and clear next steps, not to overwhelm them with jargon.
How Jason’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and moves at their pace. It is about being heard and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client, which helps when sorting family priorities or parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change patterns that get in the way of daily life. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and can be useful for substance concerns or building healthier habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with the client to choose methods that match needs, goals, and comfort level. This process can shift over time as priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Video calls let people maintain visual contact, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into real life while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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