About Hadass
Dr. Hadass Harel uses trauma-focused, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage ADHD-related struggles alongside stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. She is a licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of clinical experience based in Massachusetts.
Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people make practical changes in daily life. She has worked in diverse settings across continents, including high-stress environments. That background shaped a practical approach to symptoms that come from trauma, chronic illness, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She helps people understand how past experiences affect current behavior and relationships. In sessions she combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses EMDR and hypnotherapy when appropriate to address trauma memories and stuck patterns.
The focus is on building skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and improve focus and organization. People come to her for a wide range of concerns such as depression, panic, addictions, grief, body-image issues, caregiver stress, and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with trauma, dissociation, and the emotional effects of medical illness and chronic pain.
Sessions aim for clear goals and small, usable steps between meetings. Dr. Harel offers sessions in English and Hebrew and works with clients both locally and internationally.
She welcomes straightforward conversation and aims to create a nonjudgmental space where difficult thoughts and feelings can be talked through.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Harel often combines attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand patterns in relationships and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship experiences shape current behavior, and CBT teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and attention problems.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can be useful for strong emotions, impulsive behaviors, and improving day-to-day coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. That decision is revisited as therapy progresses to make sure sessions stay useful.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, writing through thoughts, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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