About Neal
Neal Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who has practiced psychotherapy for 40 years. He helps people manage stress and anxiety and attend to relationship and grief issues. Neal blends practical tools with a calm, grounded presence in session.
He draws from years of work in holistic health and from long experience leading workshops and creating community practices. His background includes study and travel in the United States, China, and India, and decades teaching relaxation, meditation, and energy work.
Background and approach
Neal has also written a book, produced a relaxation recording, and created public labyrinths used in workshops and community projects. In therapy he offers straightforward skills such as relaxation training, meditation practice, and techniques to reduce emotional overwhelm. He also uses talk-based methods to address patterns in relationships and self-esteem.
Sessions often focus on immediate coping strategies and step-by-step changes clients can try between meetings. Neal brings additional tools for people coping with medical challenges like diabetes, cancer, or chronic pain, and he works with clients facing career stress, parenting strain, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. He has led research on attention concerns and developed tactile labyrinth tools for focus work.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach that combines practical exercises with reflective conversation. Neal’s long experience in community programs and holistic settings informs a style that is patient, creative, and goal-oriented.
How Neal’s Approaches Work Online
Neal uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses; this helps people notice repeating patterns and try new ways of relating. He also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own goals so sessions feel collaborative and respectful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Neal will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit those aims. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to access. Video calls let the therapist and client work in real time for deeper conversation and guided relaxation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief reflections, ongoing coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options provide flexibility so people can fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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