Oliver Harper, LPC

Oliver Harper, LPC, is licensed in Georgia and has 22 years of clinical experience. He works with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, ADHD, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes. He uses Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy as his primary method and also draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior techniques, the Gottman Method, and Jungian perspectives.

Harper trained at Georgia State University where he earned a Master of Science in Professional Counseling. His background includes work in residential programs for adolescents, short-term acute care as a clinician and consultant, in-home therapy in Metro Atlanta communities, and a private practice maintained for 15 years. He also has graduate study in leadership and apologetics, and experience in business and industrial-organizational psychology.

In sessions he focuses on practical tools to reduce stress and anxiety, and on helping people connect past experiences with current patterns. He uses Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to teach concrete skills for managing emotions and behavior. He also integrates ideas from attachment work to address relationship patterns and from dialectical approaches to build emotion regulation skills.

Oliver has worked extensively with people who experienced trauma and the effects of family dysfunction, alcoholism, and perfectionism. He incorporates philosophical ideas such as Stoic practices when they fit a person's goals. He is the author of two books and describes himself as a lifelong learner.

He frames therapy as a collaborative process that focuses on identifying unhelpful beliefs, developing coping strategies, and strengthening a person's sense of identity and agency.

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