About Harrison
Harrison Burdo is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He offers straightforward, person-centered care that responds to each person's history and concerns. He uses an integrative style that draws on multiple evidence-based techniques to meet people where they are.
Sessions usually center on understanding what feels most difficult now and building simple, practical coping skills to make daily life more manageable.
Background and approach
People come to him for a range of issues including trauma and abuse, family-related strain, low self-esteem, and major life changes. He also supports work on attachment and abandonment worries, communication struggles, control issues, and obsessive thoughts and behaviors. Harrison emphasizes a collaborative relationship.
He works at a pace chosen with the client and focuses on strengthening emotional awareness, problem-solving, and healthier patterns of relating to others. The tone in sessions is respectful, curious, and nonjudgmental. With five years of clinical experience, he blends practical tools and listening to help people feel steadier and clearer about next steps.
Sessions are offered in English for people located in New York, using formats that fit different schedules and needs.
Integrative techniques and flexible online sessions
Harrison commonly blends person-centered work with practical evidence-based techniques. Person-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients feel understood and can explore what matters most. He also uses skills-based strategies drawn from evidence-based practice to help manage anxiety and stress, such as breathing and grounding exercises, behavioral steps to reduce avoidance, and techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Harrison will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they shape a plan that may mix reflective conversations with hands-on skill practice so progress fits the client's pace and life demands.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face when schedules and bandwidth allow. Phone sessions can be easier when someone needs a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging support quick reflections, between-session check-ins, or working through moments of stress without needing scheduled video time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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