About Khara
Khara Harper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and career or workplace concerns.
Background and approach
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and builds individualized plans using evidence-based methods to address issues such as self-esteem, coping with life changes, relationship and family challenges, and compassion fatigue. Harper draws on a range of therapeutic techniques to tailor interventions to each person's needs, including approaches that focus on practical skills, emotional processing, and values-based change.
She also offers support for caregiver stress, communication problems, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and coaching around professional concerns. Based in Illinois, she holds an Illinois LCSW (IL LCSW 149024129) and provides services in English.
Her practice centers on empowering clients to identify goals and develop strategies that fit their lives. Prospective clients are invited to begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a brief matching questionnaire, and scheduling sessions according to availability.
Approaches That Guide Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action, teaching skills to accept difficult thoughts and focus on what matters in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy creates a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the therapist listens closely and helps clients explore their feelings and goals at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. This may involve combining techniques from different models and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for varying schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they allow licensed professionals to offer tailored support in formats that fit daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English