About Ngozi
Ngozi Harris is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 12 years of experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to improve daily life and relationships. She encourages clients to name what matters to them and to use their strengths to move forward.
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Ngozi emphasizes clear goals and steady progress rather than jargon or long lectures. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, and grief.
How Ngozi works
She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, parenting questions, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include body image, commitment and control issues, infidelity, isolation and life purpose. Ngozi draws on practical approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people change unhelpful patterns and take steps toward what matters.
She also uses Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to reframe stories and build workable strategies, and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harm affects present life. Clients can expect clear, simple tools to try between sessions. Ngozi aims to make progress feel doable and relevant to everyday demands.
She practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
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What Ngozi works with
The areas below are the ones Ngozi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Ngozi commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can help when avoidance or rumination keeps someone stuck.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers concrete exercises and homework that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood swings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ngozi collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She will adjust pacing and techniques as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be a quick check-in or a way to share thoughts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping momentum between meetings.
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