Stephanie Harris

Stephanie Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Illinois who originally hails from Vermont and now lives in Chicago. With ten years of clinical experience, she supports adults and couples through a wide range of life challenges.

Her work follows a person-centered philosophy that honors each person’s own wisdom about what they need. Stephanie views her role as helping people uncover their priorities, recognize existing strengths, and build greater self-confidence so they can pursue meaning, fulfillment, and joy.

She works with individual adults and couples on issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger management, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Stephanie has specialized training in trauma recovery and is an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, a modality that can aid in forming more healing interpretations of traumatic memories. A trauma-informed approach guides her work to help people feel safer and more secure in their lives today.

Stephanie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Vermont and a Master’s degree in Counseling from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. She is licensed to practice as a clinical professional counselor in Illinois.

Her clinical background includes experience in private practice, crisis centers, in-patient hospitals, employee assistance programs, community mental health centers, and primary care clinics. She has worked with adults, couples, people with developmental disabilities, survivors of sexual abuse, members of the Latinx population, couples facing infertility, and people experiencing deportation-related challenges. These varied settings and populations have helped her develop multiple ways to connect with clients and support them in reaching their goals.