About Anita
Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while building practical skills to handle day-to-day challenges. Anita uses a solutions-focused style that helps clients spot and use their existing strengths.
She works alongside people to set clear goals and take small steps toward them. Sessions are direct but supportive, with space to process difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Her background includes substantial work with Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which she uses to teach skills for tolerating distress and regulating emotions.
She also draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and increase values-driven action. <brClients come for help with grief, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, anger, and coping with life changes.
Anita also supports people facing issues such as chronic illness, caregiving and end-of-life concerns, guilt and shame, and isolation. In sessions she balances encouragement with honest feedback. She will point out patterns that aren’t working and coach alternative ways to respond.
The aim is practical change - better coping, clearer choices, and more movement toward the life a person wants.
Approaches and Online Support for Everyday Challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that match their values; it is useful when worry or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting automatic thoughts and testing them with new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve sleep and daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships, which can be helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by strong reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as they learn what works best.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, and flexible check-ins when timing is tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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