Stephanie Harris , LCPC

Stephanie Harris is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) originally from Vermont and currently based in Chicago. She brings a compassionate, person-centered approach to therapy, believing that each person understands their own needs and strengths best. As a therapist, she focuses on helping clients recognize their strengths, build confidence, and work toward greater meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life.

She works with individual adults and couples on concerns such as anxiety, depression, abuse, addiction, self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship challenges. Stephanie has specialized training in trauma recovery and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a method that can help people form new, more healing interpretations of distressing memories. She takes a trauma-informed stance, helping clients heal from painful experiences so they can feel safer and more secure in their day-to-day lives.

Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Vermont and a Master of Arts in Counseling from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. Her clinical background includes work in private practice, crisis centers, in-patient hospitals, employee assistance programs, community mental health centers, and primary care clinics. She has experience supporting adults, couples, people with developmental disabilities, survivors of sexual abuse, members of the Latinx community, couples facing infertility, and people confronting deportation, and she draws on that range of experience to find multiple ways to connect and help clients reach their goals.

Client-Centered Care and Trauma-Informed Online Support

Stephanie practices a client-centered approach, which focuses on listening closely to each person's experiences and priorities and supporting them to find their own solutions. This approach is useful for issues like anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and life transitions because it centers the client's goals and strengths.

She also integrates EMDR for clients working through trauma. EMDR helps people reprocess distressing memories so those events have less emotional impact and so new, more adaptive perspectives can take hold. It can be particularly helpful for people recovering from abuse or other traumatic experiences.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Stephanie works collaboratively with clients to determine what methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they consider the pace and interventions that feel most helpful.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can happen by video call or phone, and shorter interactions can take place via live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access licensed professionals from wherever a client is located within the therapist's service area.