Cathryn Harris

Healing begins, Cathryn Harris believes, when the brain finally gets unstuck — and that conviction has shaped thirty years of clinical practice. Working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, she addresses trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship conflict by helping clients understand the patterns their own neurology has locked into place. Change those patterns, and real choices become possible again.

Central to her work is EMDR therapy, a structured psychological process that engages the brain’s own healing mechanisms to loosen the grip of traumatic memory and automatic emotional response. She also draws on principles of faith, human behaviour, and family systems thinking — weaving them into treatment in ways that are integrative rather than incidental. Families she works with often arrive exhausted by conflict that has quietly grown around them: parents and teenagers who have forgotten how to be in the same room together, each absorbed in a separate screen, the distance between them feeling wider than it should.

Dr. Harris holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and an M.A. in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy from Biola University. She is certified in EMDR, Critical Incident Stress Management, and the Amen Method, and has served as clinical director, clinical supervisor, and educator throughout her career. Online sessions are available.