About Hadass
Dr. Hadass Harel uses trauma-informed methods to help people manage fear, anxiety, and stress. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with three decades of clinical experience.
Dr. Harel works with adults who face panic, depression, substance struggles, and the relationship strain that often follows trauma. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Sessions often include hands-on techniques that address panic attacks, dissociation, and the distress that chronic illness can bring.
Background and approach
She also helps people navigate grief, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy. Dr. Harel draws on approaches such as attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical strategies, EMDR, and hypnotherapy to tailor an approach to each person.
Treatment plans are shaped around current concerns and realistic goals. Progress is tracked through changes in daily functioning and coping skills rather than labels. Having worked across different regions and difficult settings, she emphasizes clear, direct communication.
Expect straightforward guidance, pacing that feels manageable, and practical homework between sessions when helpful. The goal is to reduce overwhelming symptoms and restore a sense of control. Sessions are offered in English and Hebrew and can be scheduled online or by phone.
Dr. Harel accepts international clients and supports people dealing with a wide range of issues including phobias, addiction, and trauma-related symptoms.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating and trust. Online sessions using this approach explore how past relationships shape current fears and help build new ways of connecting and relying on others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In remote sessions CBT provides practical exercises and small homework tasks to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and change unhelpful thinking.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, addresses distress tied to traumatic memories by using structured protocols that can be adapted for video or phone work to reduce the intensity of upsetting memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust the plan as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to continue care across locations and time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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