About Oliver
Oliver Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and helps people manage addictions, trauma, parenting stresses, ADHD, depression, and relationship concerns. He writes plainly and brings a mix of life and clinical experience to sessions.
He trained in professional counseling at Georgia State University and holds graduate study in leadership and apologetics. Earlier work included roles in residential settings for adolescents, short-term acute care, in-home therapy across Metro Atlanta, and a independent practice that he ran for 15 years.
Background and approach
He also spent time in business and Wall Street environments and studied industrial and organizational psychology. His approach blends methods such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. He uses practical tools to help people change unhelpful thinking, build routines, and manage intense emotions.
He also draws on Jungian ideas and the Gottman Method when relationships or deeper personal meaning are central concerns. Oliver has substantial experience addressing the effects of trauma, family dysfunction, perfectionism, and the need for approval. Sessions often focus on connecting past experiences to present behavior and creating steps toward more stable daily functioning.
He aims to help people strengthen their sense of identity and take manageable steps toward their goals. He values a collaborative relationship where clients and he work together on what matters most. Oliver also offers sessions in formats that fit modern life, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and guided exercises to identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating, which can help with intimacy concerns and attachment issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying out small behavioral experiments between meetings, and using worksheets or short exercises sent by message to track progress.
Finding the best approach is part of the work and will be collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time to match how someone responds and what fits their life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for longer sessions, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing tracking and short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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