About Harold
Harold Eckholm is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Arizona. He draws on three decades of clinical work to help people who are struggling with addiction, relationship strain, trauma, anxiety, parenting stress, and family conflict. He focuses on building a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and painful events.
Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Harold listens closely and asks practical questions that help people spot patterns and make small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Harold uses approaches like attachment-focused work to look at how early relationships shape current connections. He also uses client-centered skills to follow each person's pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when unhelpful thoughts and behaviors get in the way of recovery.
Across his practice he supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and issues around blended families. He also addresses topics such as forgiveness, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to kink and alternative sex culture. Sessions aim for clear next steps rather than vague goals.
Harold works with clients to set small, achievable tasks between meetings and checks progress together. The approach is practical and steady, focusing on improving relationships and reducing the effects of trauma and addiction over time.
Combining relationship-focused approaches with online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people change patterns that cause conflict or distance. This approach is useful for relationship strain, attachment issues, and healing after loss or abandonment.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's pace and priorities. The therapist offers active listening and reflection so people can explore feelings and decide what matters most to them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Harold collaborates with each person to pick techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. He will suggest strategies, try them out, and adjust the plan based on what actually helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Text and chat let people check in between appointments or use shorter check-ins during a busy day.
These formats make it easier to keep regular contact and to try therapeutic tools in real life. They also let people schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while working with licensed professionals who use attachment and client-centered methods.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English