About Susan
Dr. Susan Harris helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and mood challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of professional experience.
Her focus includes trauma, grief, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes. She also works with issues such as codependency, substance and process addictions, and social anxiety. She approaches care in a person-centered way.
That means she listens first and follows the client’s lead.
Background and approach
She teaches practical skills people can use between sessions. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and build routines that support everyday functioning. Dr.
Harris mixes several methods to fit each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address thought patterns and on dialectical behavior ideas for emotion regulation. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to increase self-awareness and strengthen motivation to change.
Her practice often focuses on the whole person - physical, emotional, and spiritual factors that affect recovery and mental health. She emphasizes small, manageable steps and skill-building that fit into busy lives. The goal is to improve day-to-day coping and reduce the hold of anxiety and addictive behaviors.
Sessions can include talking through current problems, practicing new coping skills, and planning for triggers or setbacks. Dr. Harris works from Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
She does not accept international clients.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs. Online sessions using this approach involve reflective conversation, validation, and collaborative goal-setting to help clients feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. In remote sessions this looks like identifying troubling thoughts, trying new behaviors between meetings, and reviewing what worked or did not work. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are useful for intense anxiety, mood swings, and urges related to addiction, and these skills can be practiced and coached during online meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions often combine two or more approaches and are adjusted as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support between calls, quick updates, or when typing feels more comfortable than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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