About Hadass
Dr. Hadass Harel uses an approach grounded in attachment work and trauma-focused therapies to help people regain stability after distressing experiences. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing from Massachusetts and brings three decades of clinical work to her sessions.
Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people manage anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship struggles. Her background includes long-term experience with trauma and its aftermath, including responses like dissociation, panic, and mood disruption.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout from loss and major life changes. Dr. Harel combines methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with attachment-focused work to meet individual needs.
In sessions she addresses symptoms such as low self-esteem, anger, eating concerns, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people navigating adoption or foster care questions, abandonment wounds, or communication and control problems. Her practice includes attention to complex presentations like bipolar mood patterns and disruptive mood dysregulation.
Dr. Harel offers therapy in English and Hebrew and accepts international clients. Appointments are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on the therapist's availability. With many years of practice, she aims to make the work clear and achievable one step at a time.
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. In online sessions this work looks at patterns in how a person connects, responds to closeness, and manages trust, helping them build more stable ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Over video or phone, CBT uses clear exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits.
EMDR helps process distressing memories that continue to cause symptoms like flashbacks or intense emotional reactions. When used remotely, the therapist guides memory processing and grounding techniques while helping the person notice shifts in feeling and perspective.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break during the day. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between appointments or choose conversation without being on camera. These formats make it easier to get consistent care around work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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