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​Do you need someone compassionate 
to help you through the challenging issues 
of your life?

​Steven Harris, PhD


Psychologist & Psychotherapy
Individual & Relational Therapy
How I work/Approach to Therapy.
Beginning with the very first appointment, I work closely with you to help tailor-make how we will work together in therapy.  Through mutual exploration, we will formulate a unique approach that is a reflection of your goals (or if you struggle to know what your goals are, how we will begin to find out what drives you more). You might say I do not have single approach, but that my approach is uniquely informed  by you and the path that we chart together.  Our working relationship should help you experience yourself to deepen, broaden, and expand how you are and can be with others.  While this can be quite challenging work, it can be quite rewarding.  The work usually includes:

  • Formulating your goals for treatment;
  • Helping you define how you can work on these goals;
  • Using our relationship as a process to explore parts of yourself that have becoming limiting for you in your relationships up until this point;
  • Use of our work together as a laboratory for understanding and relating to others;
  • Help you explore and discover the roots of your difficulties to help you not continue to relive the ones that interfere with you in the present;
  • Help you find ways to feel more accepted, secure and safe in relationships;
  • By discovering the deeper parts of yourself, learn to not rely on "how-to's" and "tips" that are short-lived solutions that rarely last;
  • Find ways of relating yourself to others that allows you to feel more known, and come out of the loneliness that comes with feeling that you have to hide yourself.

Philosophy of Treatment.
I have found that by working closely with and being compassionately attuned with people, that an accepting and safe environment can provide individuals with an opportunity to push further through parts of themselves that have felt too dangerous or painful to engage with in relationships.  It is this very activation of what has often been necessarily and protectively locked inside, that promotes the new possibility of finding ways to be more open to one's self and, consequently, with others in a relationship.
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Steven M. Harris, PhD - Psychologist & Psychotherapist

I am interested in helping you find more fulfillment for yourself in relationships.
I am a clinical psychologist in private practice in Orange County for over 25 years.  I would like to have the opportunity to explore further what might be done to help.

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU...

If you would like to ask further questions or discuss a course of action to work on your relationship issues, please call (714) 290.1506 or email ([email protected]) me today to schedule an initial consultation.  Please ask about my FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION policy.  Don’t delay getting on with your life any longer!

LOCATION


1400 Quail Street, Suite 210
Newport Beach, CA 92660
714.290.1506
[email protected]
DISCLAIMER:  Any materials and related content included in this website is provided as a service to the community and for informational purposes only. This website is not meant to provide answers to questions, nor is it meant to serve as a substitute for psychological advice. Steve Harris, Ph.D., makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained herein. 
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