Anita Harris

Anita Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She uses a practical, solution-based style to help people move past what holds them back. Anita focuses on identifying strengths and building simple tools clients can use between sessions.

Her work includes Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She draws on these methods to address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting worries, and sleep problems.

Anita often blends skills training with conversational work. She teaches coping strategies, emotion regulation skills, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking. She also challenges patterns that don’t serve a person’s goals and supports practical problem solving for career, life changes, and self-esteem issues.

People seeking help for more specific concerns can find focus on areas like ADHD, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and pain, end-of-life and hospice matters, and family-of-origin issues. She also addresses control issues, dissociation, abandonment, and communication problems.

Anita works in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used so scheduling can be arranged according to the therapist’s availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How Anita’s approaches work in online therapy

Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on helping people process upsetting experiences and reduce their hold on daily life. It often involves pacing, skill-building, and focused conversations to help someone feel more stable and in control when memories or reactions arise.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps a person notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It emphasizes small, practical steps toward a meaningful life even when difficult feelings are present.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Anita will work collaboratively to discuss goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She blends skill practice and straight talk so sessions feel useful between appointments.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let sessions occur from a quieter place, or make it easier to use written exercises and tools between meetings. Licensed professionals tailor each plan to the client’s goals and day-to-day reality.