Brittany Harris, LMFT

I am a trauma-focused licensed marriage and family therapist. I am passionate about helping my clients feel actual positive change and progress in their lives. I’m not interested in teaching skills and providing tools to cope with your suffering. I want to help alleviate the suffering itself. I approach my work with clients from a Humanistic (focus on personal potential, growth, and inherent goodness, rather than dysfunction) and Client-centered (respect for individual autonomy, collaborative partnership that promotes empowerment of the client and acknowledges the client as the expert of their lives) perspectives.
 
 I find it critically important to maintain a non-judgmental, compassionate presence with clients, and I pride myself on my ability to do this regardless of what is being shared with me. It’s almost impossible to be vulnerable and allow yourself to heal when you feel any judgment or criticism from the person helping you, and I know this from personal experience as a client. The therapeutic space I create is emotionally safe, where you can share feedback, uncomfortable information, and freely speak your mind.

I’ve always had a deep curiosity about the human experience, the mind, learning how we experience wounding, and, most importantly, what actually helps us heal. The majority of the time, your external circumstances don’t have to change to feel better. Often, healing happens within first, and external changes follow naturally. I’ve had my own fair share of very difficult life experiences, and I’ve been a client most of my life as well. I can relate to the fears, frustrations, and desperation that accompanies being in this process with a therapist, and I’m not scared to sit with people in the darkest places of their mind. In fact, I am honored to meet individuals in these places, so they can move out of it to something brighter.