Patrice Harris, LPC

When her husband left and she found herself raising a two-year-old daughter alone, Patrice Harris faced a profound turning point that reshaped both her life and her priorities. In the wake of that experience she chose to return to school with family support and pursue the training that led to her LPC credential - LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, a credential for mental health professionals who provide counseling and therapy. Over the past 20 years she has built a practice focused on helping people move from pain and confusion toward greater stability and self-trust.

Patrice has spent much of her career working with women navigating divorce, adults confronting stage-of-life transitions, and individuals of all ages seeking to discover or strengthen personal resources. Her work centers on building a collaborative relationship in which the therapist and client become a two-person team. That partnership begins with cultivating trust and affirming the client’s capacity for self-empowerment, even when the client doubts that capacity at first.

In sessions she uses practical strategies to reframe negative beliefs, identify distorted thoughts that hold people back, and pinpoint internal and external resources. Therapy may include directed exercises, discussion of relevant research and books, and integrative work that connects patterns of belief until meaningful change emerges. Patrice holds a hopeful, steady conviction that most problems can be addressed when two people work together with a sound knowledge base - over time today’s struggle can become a learning experience and a memory.