Harriette Wade

Harriette Wade is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who helps people facing relationship strain, anger, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, self-esteem struggles, trauma, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and collaborative, aimed at helping people find balance and move toward meaningful change.

Her background includes a master’s in professional counseling from Grand Canyon University earned in 2012 and about 12 years as an LPC. She has worked in mental rehabilitation settings and intensive outpatient programs. Those roles involved coordinating with psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, primary care, and social service agencies.

In sessions she focuses on skills people can use day to day. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Psychodynamic ideas help uncover patterns from earlier life that affect current choices. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to cause distress.

Harriette emphasizes a nonjudgmental, compassionate space where people set goals and guide the work. She treats each person as the expert on their life and builds a personalized plan from evidence-informed approaches. Her style is down-to-earth and goal oriented, with attention to coping skills and practical problem solving.

People who are motivated to make changes typically form the best collaboration with her. For those ready to explore what’s keeping them from their values, she aims to help them develop new skills and clearer direction.

How her approaches translate to online work

Harriette commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot and change patterns in thoughts and behaviors that fuel anger, anxiety, and low mood. CBT involves setting small, practical goals and practicing new skills between sessions to make daily life easier.

She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring patterns that come from earlier relationships and life events. That work can help explain why certain triggers or relationship patterns keep repeating. When past trauma is central, trauma-focused therapy is used to address strong reactions and build coping skills that reduce their impact.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time, and keep continuity when schedules shift. It also lets people try different ways of working and find what best supports their goals.