About Anita
Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She uses a solution-focused style that helps people pinpoint strengths and set clear goals. Anita mixes practical techniques and straightforward conversation to help people move forward.
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among other methods. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and practice new ways of coping.
How Anita works
Sessions can include skills practice, values clarification, and problem-solving work tailored to each person. Anita has worked with many concerns that often overlap in daily life. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, ADHD, and burnout such as compassion fatigue.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career questions, and life transitions. Additional areas of focus include chronic illness and pain, aging and geriatric issues, family of origin concerns, divorce and separation, and end-of-life counseling. Hearing-impaired clients are also listed among the focus areas.
Anita brings two decades of clinical experience to these topics and adapts methods to fit each person’s situation. In sessions she balances support with gentle challenge. Anita helps people try different approaches in real life and track what works.
Her counseling style aims to leave people with clearer goals and usable skills.
Anita lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Anita works with
The areas below are the ones Anita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It works well for worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness; it can help with anger, relationship strain, and overwhelming stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That might mean mixing elements of ACT, CBT, and DBT until a good match emerges.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other schedules while still working on practical skills.
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