About Savannah
Savannah Harness offers help for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports those coping with trauma, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, career concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem issues. Savannah presents a calm, straightforward approach in sessions.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust in relationships. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to manage emotion and improve coping during hard moments.
Background and approach
Savannah brings seven years of experience as a licensed professional counselor in Missouri. Her background includes work in varied settings, which shaped her ability to look at problems from different angles. She focuses on listening first, then building clear steps forward.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients can expect concrete strategies, skills practice, and a steady check on progress. Savannah emphasizes small, achievable changes that fit into daily life.
She also addresses specific concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, body image, and intimacy-related problems. This lets conversations stay focused on the problems that matter most to each person. People who want a direct, practical helper will find a structured yet warm style.
Savannah invites clients to decide what they want to change and works alongside them to make a plan.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at patterns of closeness and trust in relationships and helps people build healthier ways of connecting. It can be useful for struggles around abandonment, attachment issues, blended family concerns, and intimacy-related problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then testing new actions; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Savannah will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. She treats the first few sessions as a time to learn what fits and adjusts methods based on feedback and progress.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility so clients can pick what works best for their schedule and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Maine
- Languages
- English