About Demetria
Demetria Powell-Harrison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of professional experience providing therapy. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them move toward clearer goals. Her style is warm and interactive, and she aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly.
She commonly helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing parenting challenges, career questions, and major life changes. Her work includes attention to issues such as self-esteem, anger, intimacy, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Demetria blends practical methods with attentive listening.
She uses client-centered techniques to follow the person’s lead and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas help people find concrete next steps they can try between sessions. Sessions tend to be collaborative and geared toward clear, real-world progress.
Demetria emphasizes kindness and respect, and she helps clients notice how past experiences may shape current choices. She also works with people on boundaries, communication, and coping skills that make daily life easier. Based in North Carolina, she offers care in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and new clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an appointment.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Demetria commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during online work. Client-Centered Therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead, helping people name their priorities and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people build motivation for change and Solution-Focused ideas to create concrete next steps. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and what they want to accomplish in therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when that helps connection. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or fit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief touchpoints into a busy day or to process things between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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