LCSW, 18 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
Hello, With over 18 years of experience in the mental health field, I have a conviction about the human capacity to grow, develop, and adapt throughout life. I appreciate that each person brings to therapy a unique self: the combination of one's personal characteristics, early family relationships, and life experiences. Many times, our most significant growth occurs because of learning to cope with challenges that occur in life and the stress that often accompanies change. Therapy can be an excellent tool to help clarify your thoughts, as well as reach a healthy life balance. I look forward to meeting with you and working hard together to explore the deeper meanings of your experiences as they relate to the present, and how you would like to see yourself in the future.
The first session usually involves me asking you a lot of questions about you, how you cope, your current symptoms and how they are impairing your life. We will also talk about your goals for therapy, expectations, and more. Therapy can involve unearthing many things your brain has worked hard to bury, such as painful memories and feelings you may not have been up to exploring on your own. And as you sit down for first-time therapy, you may find the floodgates opening… whether you mean them to or not. You will be provided with support, empathy, and genuine regard.
I believe my greatest strength that I bring to my practice is being empathetic, compassionate, great listener, effective communication and tremendous experience and education. I am curious, analytical, open minded, warm, and patient, which makes it easy to connect with people and offer help.
I am most experienced with adult population suffering from anxiety, depression, self-doubt, difficult life stressors, work life balance, relationship dynamics and indecision. I also have years of experience working with trauma survivors. I also treat adult suffering from insomnia.
Cognitive therapy focuses on changing patterns of thinking and beliefs that are associated with, and trigger, anxiety. CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way. In my practice, I work to assist with the identification client' beliefs, identify how thoughts lead to feelings and show how distorted thinking leads to negative feelings. I help the client change their thoughts so they may have a more adaptive response.
ACT helps you move beyond negative thoughts and feelings. There are six core principals of ACT: accepting your emotions, detaching from negativity, being present, seeing yourself completely, creating values and reaching goals.
CPT for PTSD assist clients who are "stuck" in their thoughts about trauma. This a highly structured therapy that examines the conflict between pre-trauma beliefs about yourself, others and the world and post-trauma beliefs about self, others, and the world. There are separate phases of treatment: psychoeducation, understanding thoughts and feelings, Learning new skills, and changing beliefs. I have assisted client through childhood abuse, combat trauma, natural disasters, car accidents and sexual assault.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is a multi-component treatment for insomnia that targets difficulties with initiating and/or maintaining sleep and is delivered over the course of six to eight sessions. The primary focus of CBT-I is to address the perpetuating factors that contribute to the development of chronic insomnia. Core components of CBT-I include Sleep Restriction Therapy, Stimulus Control Therapy, Sleep Hygiene, and Cognitive Therapy. I ask clients to download an app that contains sleep logs and track their sleep, then before session they can email the logs directly to me so we may share the information.
7 ratings with written reviews
July 25, 2025
Dr. Harmon is warm and empathetic. I have not previously had a good experience with a virtual counselor and was apprehensive prior to this appointment. She immediately dissipated those concerns. I have already scheduled my next two appointments with her in the coming weeks.
July 13, 2025
She is really patient with me and tries to get to the root of some of my negative thought patterns // find the solutions that actually work for me.
July 2, 2025
Dr Harmon listens without judgment. Always looking for a way to help and makes it known that if there is anything to please let her know. Very open minded and comes across genuinely caring.