About Demetria
Demetria Powell-Harrison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helps them set practical goals. Her manner is warm and approachable, and she aims to create a nonjudgmental space for honest conversation.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and bipolar disorder. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strains, career questions, and life transitions.
How Demetria works
Additional focuses include ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness and body image concerns. Her style is interactive and flexible. Sessions often include active listening, motivational interviewing, and problem-solving strategies.
When helpful, she uses cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Demetria emphasizes practical steps and short-term strategies alongside deeper work when needed. She helps people build coping skills, plan next steps, and address patterns that interfere with daily life.
She also supports those navigating loss, abandonment, adoption and attachment-related questions. People who prefer a direct, kind approach tend to fit well with her style. She encourages collaboration, so treatment plans reflect the person's goals.
Her practice is based in North Carolina and conducted in English.
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What Demetria works with
The areas below are the ones Demetria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approach to Online Therapy and Techniques
Demetria often uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the focus on the person's experience and goals. This means sessions start with careful listening and then follow the person's lead to decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to reduce reactivity and support calmer responses to difficult feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what does not, so the approach can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face to face for longer sessions and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support easier between sessions.
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