Monriel Harbison

Monriel Harbison, LCMHC, offers a warm, collaborative approach to help people manage anxiety, depression, and the strong emotions that come with them. She focuses on practical steps to reduce irritability, racing thoughts, sleep problems, and overwhelming stress. Conversations aim to build skills so emotions feel less controlling and daily life feels more manageable.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness-based ideas to shape short, doable steps in sessions. Work in the room centers on noticing patterns, testing small changes, and practicing new habits between meetings. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy also inform brief goal-setting and action planning.

Monriel has four years as a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina and additional experience in the mental health field. She uses that background to help people strengthen resilience, improve emotional regulation, and create steady routines that support better sleep and mood.

Typical topics include stress, coping with life changes, addictions, relationship strain, self-esteem, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports work on communication problems, mood disorders, growing self-love, and issues affecting women.

Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Clients leave with simple tools to practice between meetings and clear steps to try. Prospective clients should confirm current session options when they start the process.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Monriel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can try small changes that lead to noticeable differences. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings and impulsive reactions.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which tools to prioritize and adjust those tools as needs change over time.

Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy week and keeping progress going between in-person visits when travel or timing is difficult. Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm which options are available before booking. Online sessions can make short check-ins easier, reduce time spent traveling, and help people keep consistent practice while juggling work, family, or treatment for sleep and mood issues.