Anita Harris

Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She uses a practical, solution-based approach to help people meet goals they set for themselves. Anita looks for each person's strengths and helps them use those strengths in everyday life.

She draws on several therapy methods to match what a person needs. Anita often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people manage intense emotions and get through hard times. She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to help with thoughts, behaviors, and values-based choices.

In sessions she both supports and challenges clients. Anita helps people notice patterns that aren’t working and try new ways of responding. That might mean practicing breathing or grounding skills, testing a new communication approach, or reframing negative thoughts.

Her background includes long experience with grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, trauma, anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns. She also helps people dealing with parenting stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and relationship or intimacy issues.

Sessions focus on practical steps and skill building. Anita works to create clear goals, small experiments between sessions, and tools people can use right away. The aim is steady progress so clients feel more capable managing life’s changes.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It often involves noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness, which can be practiced between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Anita will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and needs and then tailor techniques from these methods. Over the first few meetings she and the client will try approaches and adjust based on what helps most.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and keeping momentum between visits. Because the exact session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm current session options before booking. Anita focuses on concrete skills, brief homework tasks, and regular check-ins so therapy can fit into everyday life and support steady progress.