Pronouns: She/her
Licensure: Therapist
Location: North Carolina
Languages: English
Sliding Scale: Available
Insurance: Aetna, BlueCross and BlueShield, Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance, Medicaid, Out of Network
Accepting New Clients: Yes
Specialties:
Racial Identity
Women's Issues
Anxiety
Mildred Harris
Therapist
ABOUT ME
Mildred has a wonderful knack for working with people of all ages, from children and tweens to adolescents, young adults, middle-aged individuals, and elders. She brings her expertise to a range of areas, including addiction, ADHD, adoption support, aging, and alcohol/substance use concerns. Mildred also addresses important issues like anger, anxiety, body positivity, career counseling, and support for child-free individuals, as well as children of parents facing addiction. She’s experienced in handling chronic illness, couples' relationships, family counseling, grief, trauma, and life coaching. Her focus extends to spiritual and religious trauma, teen violence, and support for transgender individuals. Additionally, she provides individual and family therapy, peer support, mindfulness practices, and unique offerings like talking circles drawing from Indigenous practices. Mildred is also a supportive therapist and coach for activists, healthcare workers, first responders, educators, and fellow therapists.
Mildred's rich lived experiences span the Black African Diaspora, as well as identities including asexual, aromantic, gray, demi, Asian, autistic, bicultural, biracial, and living with chronic pain or illness. As a seasoned adult and a proud person of color, she brings a deep understanding of the diverse cultural backgrounds she serves. She has a wealth of cultural knowledge about African American, diasporic, and Black cultures too. Mildred employs a variety of therapeutic and healing methods such as Motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, anger management, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), family therapy, mindfulness, positive discipline, positive psychology, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), strength-based therapy, and trauma-informed care, all dedicated to helping her clients thrive with compassion and expertise.
Every individual's journey is unique, and she’s here to meet you exactly where you are. Whether you're grappling with anxiety that keeps you up at night, navigating a difficult life transition, or simply feeling that something isn't quite right, your experiences matter. You don't have to face these challenges alone. In your work together, she will create a supportive and empathetic environment where you can feel heard, understood, and respected. Her role is not to judge or to fix, but to walk alongside you, offering guidance, tools, and insights to help you navigate your path to peace.
As a licensed mental health therapist, she specializes in helping individuals navigate life's challenges and improve their overall well-being. Her approach is client-centered and evidence-based, drawing from various therapeutic modalities to tailor treatment to each person's unique needs.
She understands that reaching out for help can feel daunting. Perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure if therapy is right for you. These feelings are completely normal and valid. She wants you to know that taking this step is a sign of strength, not weakness. Every individual's journey is unique, and she is here to meet you exactly where you are.
Why I Do This Work
“I do this work because healing has always been ours, rooted in community, ritual, and the wisdom of ancestors long before systems tried to pathologize us. I want therapy to feel less like extraction and more like return: to language, culture, and practices that honor the whole person. My work is about tending wounds in ways that resist erasure and reclaim dignity, joy, and belonging.”
— Mildred Harris
My Approach in Practice
In our work together, I hold space that is both rooted and expansive, a place where your story is honored in the context of culture, community, and the larger systems shaping your life. My approach is relational and collective, guided by deep listening, cultural humility, and respect for lived wisdom. Healing with me does not mean rushing to erase pain, but slowing down enough to notice how histories, relationships, and identities live in the body, and how they can also be sources of resilience and strength.
I may bring in practices from CBT, family systems work, talking circles grounded in Indigenous traditions, and mindfulness, but always adapt them to you, not the other way around. Sometimes our time together looks like untangling patterns of generational trauma or systemic harm; other times it looks like grounding in breath, noticing what sustains you, or practicing new ways of relating to yourself and others.
I believe therapy is not just about individual survival but about reclaiming wholeness and possibility in community. My role is to walk beside you with compassion, curiosity, and steadiness, helping you reconnect to your agency and to practices of care that can carry you forward, on your own terms, and at your own pace.
How We Can Work Together
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CBT, mindfulness practices, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), narrative therapy approaches, talk therapy, and trauma-informed care techniques. These modalities aim to empower clients by providing tools for self-exploration, emotional healing, and personal transformation within a culturally sensitive and supportive environment.
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I support clients in developing healthier responses to stress, building skills for emotional regulation, and nurturing personal growth.
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In our time together, you can expect a space that honors both your story and the histories that shape it. I approach sessions as conversations rooted in care, cultural wisdom, and practical tools. Sometimes that looks like slowing down to notice your body and breath, other times it’s unpacking patterns of harm or experimenting with new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Our work may include talking circles, mindfulness, or strength-based practices alongside evidence-based methods like CBT or solution-focused therapy. I hold space for humor, grief, anger, and resilience, knowing they can all be part of healing. You set the pace, and I walk with you, holding both the weight of systemic realities and the possibilities for repair, connection, and choice.
Clients often come to me when they are:
Exploring racial, cultural, or gender identity, and wanting a space that honors the fullness of who they are without judgment or pathologizing.
Carrying intergenerational or collective trauma, and looking to process the weight of systemic harm, historical wounds, or cultural displacement.
Navigating relationships and family dynamics, whether through adoption, parenting, caregiving, or reconciling with the impact of addiction or chronic illness.
Facing burnout or compassion fatigue, especially as activists, educators, healthcare workers, or first responders seeking a place to rest and renew.
Healing from grief, loss, or spiritual/religious trauma, and hoping to reconnect with a sense of meaning, grounding, and possibility.
Struggling with shame, body disconnection, or self-criticism, and wanting to cultivate compassion, resilience, and self-acceptance.
No matter what brings you here, I approach our work as an act of care and resistance. My role is not to fix or diagnose you, but to walk beside you in reclaiming healing, agency, and self-acceptance. Together, we make room for your inner wisdom and the truths you carry, even when the world has tried to erase them.
