About Neal
Neal Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 40 years of experience. He brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. He uses straightforward techniques such as relaxation and meditation training and tools drawn from emotionally focused and attachment-based work.
Cognitive behavior strategies are part of his toolbox when people need step-by-step ways to change habits and manage symptoms.
Background and approach
He also draws on EMDR-informed approaches and other targeted practices when trauma or difficult memories are present. Neal’s background includes decades leading workshops and running a holistic education center. He has studied and taught mind-body practices in the United States, China, and India.
Those experiences shaped his interest in combining psychological and somatic methods to support healing. He has written a book called Pocket Stress Manager & Labyrinth Guide and produced a relaxation recording titled Exit The Storm. He created public labyrinths and a finger labyrinth design called Intuipath, and he led related research exploring behavioral effects for young people with ADHD.
In sessions he aims to help people build practical skills for everyday life. That can mean learning ways to sleep better, manage anger, cope with medical challenges, or find clearer communication in relationships. He also offers coaching-style support for career and life transitions.
How Neal’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how people connect and feel safe with others; online sessions use conversation and exercises to help people notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the client’s own goals; the therapist follows the person’s lead and offers reflections to help clarify feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Neal will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on emotion and attachment, skills and behavior, trauma processing, or a mix of methods that fits the situation.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps when visual cues and face-to-face interaction matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer typing. These options help fit sessions into busy days, travel schedules, or different time zones while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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