Dr. Michelle Harris, LPC

Dr. Michelle Harris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of clinical and educational experience. She works with adults on concerns such as family matters, parenting stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. She also addresses life changes like divorce, career shifts, and midlife questions, and has interest in family of origin issues and attachment concerns.

Michelle begins by listening to each person's story without judgment. She uses client-centered listening so people can reexamine patterns from their past and consider different next steps. Sessions focus on clear, practical conversation rather than technical language.

Her background includes work in social services, child protective services, public education, and community mental health. That mix of settings shaped how she notices family patterns and daily stressors that affect parenting and relationships. Her training pathway included a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington, an M.S. in School Counseling from Amberton University, and an Advanced Certificate in Professional Counseling from Dallas Baptist University.

In the room she draws on straightforward approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking, tell their story differently, and move toward manageable goals. Techniques are drawn from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, narrative approaches, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused concepts.

She encourages practical steps between sessions. That might include small behavioral experiments, new ways to name emotional patterns, or rewriting parts of a personal narrative to reduce repeating old family roles.

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