About Pridgett
Pridgett Harmon greets people who are carrying stress, anxiety, or the weight of past trauma. She names concerns plainly and offers steady support while clients sort through what matters most. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, and brings four years of practice in Maryland to her work.
She focuses on common struggles such as addiction, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and burnout. She also helps with ADHD, parenting strain, career questions, and identity concerns related to LGBT experiences.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on recognizing a person's strengths and building on them, not on telling someone what to do. Sessions are aimed at practical steps and clearer perspective. Pridgett listens for what a person values and helps set small, doable goals.
Conversations are direct and compassionate, intended to create momentum rather than stall in theory. Her background includes four years of professional experience in clinical settings in Maryland. That experience has shaped how she balances coaching-style guidance with therapy work so clients can make steady change.
People who connect well with her usually want straightforward help getting unstuck. She encourages realistic plans, ongoing reflection, and pacing that fits each person's life. The first visit focuses on what brought someone in and the next small step they can take.
Approaches and how they fit online care
Pridgett uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clear coping skills. One approach emphasizes identifying patterns that keep stress and anxiety active, then trying small behavioral changes to reduce their impact. This helps when worry or avoidance is interfering with daily life.Another common element is skill-building for managing mood and impulses, which can be useful for addictions, anger, and bipolar-related concerns. These techniques break down who, what, and when patterns happen and teach short exercises a person can use during hard moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. If one idea doesn’t fit, she adjusts plans and tries alternatives until a workable path emerges.
Online therapy offers flexibility for these methods because sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video visits let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, and chat or text work well for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to practice skills between sessions and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English