Maureen Harris

Maureen Harris is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 12 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and questions about life purpose. Maureen also helps with relationship and family concerns, career doubts, grief, trauma and abuse, and workplace challenges.

She has worked in outpatient and inpatient substance abuse treatment, college mental health counseling, group counseling, life coaching and care management. That background means she is familiar with both short-term goals and longer recovery processes. Maureen often brings concrete tools into sessions so people can start making changes between meetings.

Her style is client-centered. She helps people use their own motivation and choices as the starting point for change. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and test thoughts that lead to upsetting feelings and unhelpful behaviors. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when someone wants to strengthen their reasons for changing.

Sessions focus on practical steps for coping with life changes, improving self-esteem, and managing mood or addictive behaviors. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and seasonal mood shifts such as SAD. Her work includes life purpose conversations and coaching-style guidance when clients want clearer direction.

People can expect straightforward conversations, goal-focused strategies, and tools to practice between sessions. Maureen encourages autonomy so clients take an active part in decisions about their progress.

How her approaches translate to online work

Maureen uses a client-centered framework that puts the person's choices and motivations first. In this approach she listens for what matters most to the client and follows their lead while offering guidance. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try different behavioral experiments to change mood and reactions. Motivational interviewing helps people discover or strengthen reasons to change and set practical next steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then decide on techniques that fit the client's situation. That collaborative decision-making can shift over time as needs change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use written exercises and screen-shared worksheets between meetings to practice skills learned in session.