Demetria Powell-Harrison, LCSW
Licensed in North Carolina · 14 years in practice
Demetria Powell-Harrison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked in helping roles for over 20 years and provided clinical therapy for 14 years.
License and registration
- LCSW, North Carolina
- C007668 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1992108146 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
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About Demetria
Demetria Powell-Harrison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked in helping roles for over 20 years and provided clinical therapy for 14 years. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them move toward practical goals.
Her style is warm and interactive, and she aims to create a nonjudgmental space so clients can talk frankly about what they are facing. Demetria helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related difficulties.
Background and approach
She also supports people managing parenting challenges, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her additional interests include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and blended family issues. Her work draws on client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques.
In sessions she listens actively, asks practical questions, and helps clients try small changes that add up. The exact mix depends on each person and their goals. People who prefer a direct but compassionate approach may find her style helpful.
She emphasizes kindness, respect, and collaboration while helping clients build coping skills and plan concrete steps. Demetria practices in North Carolina as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English. She invites people who are ready to explore change to take the first step.
Starting often means clarifying a few priorities, trying manageable strategies between sessions, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Demetria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Demetria names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Demetria uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral tools to guide online sessions. Client-centered Therapy means she follows the person's lead, listens carefully, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach supports people who want a respectful, collaborative space to talk about life stress and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans as things change. That collaborative process helps find what works in real life rather than applying a single method from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and interactive work, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat is convenient for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work consistently over time.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, career concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other areas.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on listening, practical problem solving, and building coping skills tailored to each person.
What background and experience does she have?
She has worked in helping roles for over 20 years and has 14 years of experience providing clinical therapy.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an NC LCSW credential and practices in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She meets with people by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
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