Dominique Harwell, LPCC

Dominique Harwell is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. She helps people manage stress, worry, low mood, relationship strain, and grief. Her approach is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping parents and caregivers find clearer routines and steadier emotional footing.

Dominique builds an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters to them. She listens first, then works with each person to set simple goals. Sessions often involve looking at thought patterns, practicing new ways to cope, and trying small changes between meetings.

Her background includes eight years in counseling work across a range of concerns such as self-esteem, parenting stress, intimacy issues, eating and body image struggles, and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with career strain, compassion fatigue, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse.

Dominique uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered methods to help people spot unhelpful thinking and build practical habits. She also draws on dialectical skills for emotional regulation and EMDR-informed tools when trauma memories are present.

People who connect with her often want clear steps, steady support, and help balancing daily demands with long-term goals. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process as manageable as possible.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Dominique commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods that focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and task oriented, which fits well with video or text-based work where specific tools and homework can be reviewed together.

She also works from a client-centered perspective, which means sessions begin by listening and following the client's priorities. This approach helps people feel heard whether they are on a call or messaging between sessions. Dominique incorporates elements from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that clients can practice in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dominique will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan as needed.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you work through exercises face to face, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a faster check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.