Stephanie Harris, LCPC

Stephanie Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) originally from Vermont and now based in Chicago, Illinois. As an LCPC she holds a clinical counseling license and works from a client-centered framework that emphasizes the individual as the expert on their own life. Her role is to guide clients toward recognizing their strengths, building confidence, and clarifying what they want from life so they can pursue greater meaning, fulfillment, and joy.

She works with individual adults and couples on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addiction, self-esteem struggles, life transitions, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, and compassion fatigue. She has specialized training in trauma recovery and is an EMDR-trained therapist, using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing alongside talk therapy to help clients form new, more adaptive understandings of painful memories. A trauma-informed approach shapes her work with people who want to feel safer and more secure in their daily lives.

Stephanie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Vermont and a Master of Counseling from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. Over a ten-year career she has provided care in private practice, crisis centers, in-patient hospitals, employee assistance programs, community mental health centers, and primary care clinics. She has experience working with adults and couples as well as with people with developmental disabilities, survivors of sexual abuse, members of the Latinx population, couples facing infertility, and individuals confronting deportation, and she draws on that range of experience to tailor a collaborative, flexible approach to each person she sees.