About Cara
Cara Harper is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Cara also supports those dealing with addictions, anger, parenting challenges, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions are a place to talk through feelings without judgment and to sort out practical next steps. Cara uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy alongside client-centered conversations to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She draws on motivational interviewing when someone needs help finding inner motivation to change. That means she listens for what matters to the person and helps turn those values into small, doable goals. Many clients appreciate having a steady, encouraging partner while they try new strategies.
Cara also works with issues like grief, trauma and post-traumatic stress, ADHD, sleep and eating concerns, and chronic pain or illness. She addresses co-occurring problems such as process addictions or substance use alongside emotional concerns. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while remaining empathetic and grounded.
People who choose Cara tend to want clear feedback, gentle accountability, and realistic plans they can use between sessions. If someone is ready to sort priorities and make small changes, she focuses on what will help most right now.
How Cara’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Online CBT sessions focus on practical exercises, thought records, and small behavior changes that can be practiced between meetings.Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person clarify goals and values. This approach is useful for building trust and exploring what matters most to the individual.
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational style that helps people find their own reasons to change. It works well when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about making a change and prefers gentle encouragement rather than pressure.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. Cara will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adapt methods as needed. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person's life and capacity for change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English