About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 20 years of clinical and educational experience. She centers each session on listening and respect, helping people tell and make sense of their stories.
Her work often addresses anxiety along with stress, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Before clinical practice, she studied psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington and completed a Master of Science in School Counseling at Amberton University.
Background and approach
She also holds an Advanced Certificate in Professional Counseling from Dallas Baptist University. Those roles built a foundation for later work across social services, child protective services, public education, and community mental health. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She treats the person as the expert on their life and offers support while people explore next steps. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer perspectives, and skills that can be used between meetings. Dr.
Harris uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative methods, and trauma-focused practices. These tools are applied in ways that fit each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all model. People come to her for help with parenting strain, family worries, life transitions, career stress, self-esteem, and the emotional effects of illness or loss.
Her background in education and social services informs a straightforward, empathetic approach to common life challenges.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and respect. The therapist follows the person’s lead, helps them tell their story, and focuses on what matters most to the individual. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, parenting strain, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses simple exercises and practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety and low mood.
Motivational Interviewing is a goal-focused, conversational style that helps people find motivation for change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about taking the next step in their life or relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust them to match the person’s needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video can support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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