Bridgette Harris, Ph.D., LCSW-S brings over 20 years of experience in a variety of settings and with diverse clients; pediatric, adolescent, adult, geriatric, inpatient and outpatient demographics. As a former schoolteacher and professor, Dr. Harris values the importance of scaffolding information to reach clients on all levels of learning. She excels in working with young adults and adults, in individual and family systems.
As a social scientist, her research interests include trauma, physiological effects of trauma, school based metal health (SBMH), academic achievement, gender dysphoria, and immigration. She believes that healing is a collaborative endeavor between clinician and client which requires candor without judgement. Dr. Harris is warm, authentic, genuine, and humorous. She combines scholarship, evidence-based intervention, and personal experience in the holistic treatment of clients.
Dr. Harris has a thriving private practice where she focuses on treating persons affected, directly or indirectly, by trauma, complex trauma, and/or PTSD. At that, she provides an environment of compassion, unconditional acceptance, and tolerance to assist individuals on their journey in establishing a "Life Worth Living".
Dr. Harris has decades of clinical experience with acute mental health and is fully trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), certified in Hypnotherapy, and trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Through her work, she is dedicated to helping people overcome substance abuse, eating disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and other diagnoses that are a byproduct of trauma.
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