About Anita
Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical, solution-oriented work that helps people move toward the goals they set for themselves. She uses straightforward strategies to identify strengths and build on them.
Sessions are geared toward learning skills that make daily life easier. Anita mixes skill teaching with supportive feedback and sometimes a gentle challenge when patterns are getting in the way.
Background and approach
People come to her for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and addiction-related concerns. She also helps with relationship and intimacy questions, parenting stress, work and career issues, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include chronic illness, end-of-life concerns, communication problems, control issues, and life transitions.
Anita draws on methods such as dialectical behavior techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, emotionally-focused work, and client-centered listening. She aims to teach skills clients can use between sessions and to help them notice what matters most in their lives. Her style pairs practical tools with warmth and clear direction.
Anita will support progress while encouraging new ways of handling difficulties, so people can better manage hard times and move toward the life they want.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what they value and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress without acting impulsively.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Anita will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for longer sessions and body language cues, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools in real time when challenges arise.
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What this counselor works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English