About Harouna
Harouna Soumah is a licensed clinician with 12 years of experience helping people handle stress and anxiety. He works with adults who are coping with depression, trauma, relationship strain, and major life changes. His style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps that fit day-to-day life.
He focuses on clear goals such as reducing anxious symptoms, improving communication, and rebuilding routines after loss or change. Sessions typically include skill-building, problem solving, and space to talk through painful memories.
Background and approach
Harouna uses methods backed by research to guide each conversation toward manageable next steps. Harouna practices in Florida as a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - and a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT. He brings attention to cultural background and life context when planning care.
Language used in sessions is plain and straightforward to keep things understandable. Clients often work on areas like coping with grief, handling addiction urges, improving intimacy, or rethinking career directions. He also supports work on parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and anger.
The aim is to leave each session with one or two clear actions. Harouna accepts international clients and offers several online formats. He helps people build resilience and find clearer paths forward through steady, practical work and thoughtful listening.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Harouna draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and emotional processing. One common approach focuses on skill building for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and thought management tools that reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning. Another strand involves trauma-informed work that helps people process painful memories slowly while learning coping strategies to stay regulated during the work.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Harouna will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what feels most useful, then together they decide on strategies and homework to try between sessions. Adjustments are made as progress and needs change.
The online setup offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These formats make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, family, or travel while maintaining steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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