About Connie
Connie Harrington is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 22 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, relationship conflict, and grief. Connie aims to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions center on clear goals, honest conversation, and small steps people can use between meetings. She listens for what matters most and helps clients try out new habits that fit their daily life.
Background and approach
Connie draws on several evidence-based approaches. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build flexible action. She also brings client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to support change at each person's pace.
She has worked with adults through life transitions like midlife changes, workplace stress, and caregiving strain. Connie also helps people facing family problems, blended family challenges, and separation or divorce navigate shifting relationships. Her work often addresses loneliness, self-esteem struggles, guilt, and finding purpose.
Connie presents options and helps clients choose what to try first. She pays attention to strengths and practical barriers, so plans fit real life. People who want calm, steady guidance and tools to handle everyday stress may find her approach useful.
Therapeutic approaches delivered online and by phone
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, identify what matters most, and take small steps toward those values. It can aid with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting focus from struggling with thoughts to choosing meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to reduce worry, manage mood, and improve daily routines. Client-centered therapy provides a supportive space where the person leads the pace and topics while the therapist listens and reflects.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them over time based on what is most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection matters, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging can fit into a busy day with quick, written check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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