About Harriet
Harriet Mccune is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family issues, and problems with anger and self-esteem. She brings 19 years of clinical work to conversations and aims to help clients find clearer perspectives and practical steps forward.
Her style is warm and upbeat, and she listens with patience while helping people identify small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Harriet uses straightforward methods drawn from client-centered and solution-focused work. Sessions emphasize understanding a person’s history and current stresses, then choosing approaches that fit their goals. She often blends mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Houston, Central Campus and a master’s in counseling from the University of Houston, Clear Lake earned in 2003. Early clinical roles included work as a psychiatric technician and as a school counselor, and much of her career involved supporting victims of crime through grant-funded services.
In practice she breaks larger problems into manageable steps. For anger, for example, she uses a three-part method - step back, apologize when needed, and practice stopping repeated triggers - with steady practice over weeks. Clients are invited to build skills through simple exercises and repeated practice.
Harriet frames therapy as a collaborative process. She gathers background, clarifies priorities, and works with each person to set realistic goals. Over time she aims to help clients feel more capable, less overwhelmed, and better able to enjoy life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people feel heard. It emphasizes building a trusting relationship and tailoring conversations to what matters most to the client, which works well in video or chat formats where ongoing dialogue is key.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT often uses short exercises and homework, which are straightforward to assign and review in video sessions, phone check-ins, or text messaging.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. These practices can be walked through on a video call or reinforced with short text reminders between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how different methods fit a person's life. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or to keep therapy brief and frequent. These options help people fit care into work, school, or family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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