Carla Harper

Carla Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Connecticut who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and trauma. She also helps clients coping with ADHD, compassion fatigue, career struggles, and identity issues within LGBT contexts. Carla brings nine years of clinical experience to her work.

She favors a relationships-based approach that centers on the person in front of her. Sessions focus on building skills for handling everyday problems and on creating an open, honest space for clients to speak about what matters. Carla blends Client-Centered Therapy with practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Clients who have faced abuse, trauma, family disruption, or blended-family stress will find experience relevant to those concerns. Her background includes work with adolescents who have experienced physical or sexual abuse, family dysfunction, and social or developmental challenges such as autism and Asperger syndrome.

Carla frames mental health in whole-life terms, attending to mind, body, and spirit as part of healing and growth. Mindfulness techniques and emotionally-focused methods are often part of sessions when they fit a client’s needs.

Her style is practical and collaborative: she listens first, then helps people make small changes that add up. People who want support with communication problems, parenting strain, grief from separation or divorce, or issues like guilt, jealousy, or body image can expect focused skill-building and relational work.

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