About Maureen
Maureen Harris is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while also addressing addictions, depression, grief, and other life challenges. Maureen aims to make starting therapy straightforward and approachable for anyone who feels stuck.
She brings 12 years of clinical experience across outpatient and inpatient settings. Her background includes work in substance abuse treatment, college mental health counseling, group counseling, life coaching, and care management.
Background and approach
That variety gives her practical skills for facing complex situations at different life stages. In sessions she starts by meeting people where they are. She centers each conversation on the person's goals and preferences.
Maureen blends supportive listening with concrete tools clients can try between sessions. Her approach draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. She uses these to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, build motivation for change, and identify small steps that lead to progress.
Maureen also supports concerns related to identity and workplace stress, seasonal affective issues, and questions about life purpose and self-love. She encourages people to bring practical problems and emotional struggles into sessions so they can work on realistic, achievable changes together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Maureen uses client-centered therapy to keep the person as the lead in sessions. That approach focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's priorities to build trust and clarity. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Maureen will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what works for the person. The process is collaborative so techniques match the client's needs and preferences rather than being imposed.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls let visual cues guide conversation for deeper sessions. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and useful when someone needs a straightforward check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, coaching-style exchanges, or steady accountability between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum while working on stress, anxiety, addictions, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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