About Cara
Cara Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns. She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported.
Cara keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s worrying them. The work often starts with what matters most right now and moves toward small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Her approach blends listening with concrete tools. Cara uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s goals, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and motivational interviewing to build commitment to change. These methods are used to address anxiety, panic, grief, sleep problems, and issues tied to addiction and mood changes.
She also helps people facing life transitions, chronic illness or pain, and struggles with self-esteem or isolation. Sessions may include problem solving, coping skills, and steps to rebuild routines that support daily functioning. Cara works with parents on parenting concerns and with individuals navigating relationship and intimacy challenges.
She encourages realistic goals and steady progress so people can feel more in control of day-to-day life.
How Cara’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy means the conversation starts with the client’s priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what the person says matters most, making adjustments to pace and focus as needed. This approach helps when people feel unsure where to begin or need space to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. It is useful for anxiety, panic, sleep disruptions, and low mood because it breaks problems into small, manageable steps and tools people can use between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing focuses on finding personal reasons to change and building confidence to act. It can help with addictions, shifting routines, and making healthier choices when someone feels stuck.
Finding the right mix of approaches happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what works. That collaborative planning helps shape sessions so they stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several convenient ways to connect. Video calls let people work visually and use screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection, quick coping reminders, and check-ins between longer appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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