Neal Harris
Calm, experienced counselor focused on coping
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Neal
Neal Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 40 years of psychotherapy experience. He blends practical tools with mindful practices to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Neal draws on a long career that includes teaching, writing, and public outreach to make therapy clear and usable for everyday life.
He trained in the United States, China, and India, and brings that breadth into sessions through relaxation and meditation instruction.
Background and approach
Neal has led workshops since the 1980s and ran a holistic education center for 25 years. He also developed the Earth-Wisdom Labyrinth and several portable labyrinth designs used in workshops and research. In clinical work he uses attachment-based ideas, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, and client-centered methods.
Sessions often include practical exercises for coping, relaxation practice, and attention to how life changes affect mood and relationships. He also integrates tools like meditation, the Emotional Freedom Technique, and graphotherapy when they fit a person’s needs. Neal has written a book, Pocket Stress Manager & Labyrinth Guide, and produced the relaxation CD Exit The Storm.
His work has appeared on national TV and in magazines. He has also led research on his Intuipath® finger labyrinth design related to attention concerns. Neal offers sessions in English and sees clients in Illinois as well as international clients.
He combines years of clinical training with practical skills to help people cope, recover, and find clearer direction.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotions. Online sessions can use this approach to help people understand patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and responding.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and shifting emotional responses that create distance or conflict. In video or phone sessions, EFT methods help people notice feelings, name them, and try different responses to improve connection and emotional balance.
Neal also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools to address unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT in online work often includes practical exercises and homework that can be tracked between sessions through messages or text-based contact.
Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Neal will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and personal preference. That way therapy stays focused and relevant to real-life problems.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for flexible scheduling, quick follow-up between sessions, and multiple ways to practice tools taught in therapy.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Neal
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- Stop at any point