About Ngozi
Ngozi Harris welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She writes simply: taking the first step toward a happier life takes courage, and she offers steady support while clients name what matters most to them. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and burnout.
She also helps people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, and identity concerns such as LGBT-related stress.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, and problem areas like impulsivity, jealousy, or body image struggles. Ngozi uses practical methods that translate into everyday choices. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors.
Narrative and Solution-Focused approaches are used to reframe stories and set concrete, short-term goals. Her background includes 12 years of professional experience and an Illinois LCPC credential. That combination informs a direct but compassionate style that focuses on what works in daily life rather than abstract theory.
In sessions she listens for strengths and for obstacles that get in the way of goals. Clients can expect straightforward conversations, experiments to test new ways of coping, and steps to build more meaning and balance over time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting attention from avoiding discomfort to building a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical and skills-oriented, useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and anger by teaching new ways to respond to triggers.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges, then tailor methods that fit those needs. People often combine techniques from different approaches as the work evolves to find what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer, deeper session is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines while maintaining steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English