Dr. Mitchell Harris
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- UT Psychologist 9187581-2501
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mitchell
Dr. Mitchell Harris uses evidence-based therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. He is a licensed Utah psychologist with 18 years of experience and a straightforward approach.
He aims to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about difficult feelings and make practical changes. Many who reach out want help with parenting challenges, grief, addiction, or trauma-related concerns. He focuses on clear, real-world strategies rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve identifying patterns that cause pain and testing small changes that make daily life easier. Dr. Harris listens for what matters most to each person and tailors steps to fit their situation.
His background includes nearly two decades of clinical work across a range of challenges. That experience informs how he helps people handle mood shifts, relationship conflicts, and career or caregiving stress. People also turn to him for issues linked to identity and intimacy.
Therapy with Dr. Harris typically mixes practical exercises with time to talk through emotions. He encourages steady progress and checks in about what’s working.
The goal is clearer communication, better coping skills, and more stable mood management. He practices in Utah and offers sessions in English. Starting therapy begins with a short matching step, followed by scheduling based on availability.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online support
Dr. Harris draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on change and coping. One common method emphasizes identifying thought and behavior patterns that increase distress, then practicing small, concrete changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This approach helps with stress, depression, and mood instability.Another helpful technique centers on improving communication and problem-solving skills. It teaches clear ways to discuss needs and set boundaries, which can ease relationship tension and parenting conflicts. These tools are straightforward and can be practiced between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Harris works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. He checks progress and adjusts plans so the work fits practical needs and leads to usable skills.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy schedules or caregiving duties. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face to face, while phone sessions can be easier during travel or tight days. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
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