Oliver Harper, LPC

Oliver Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience across a range of clinical environments. He has worked in residential settings for adolescents, served as a clinician and consultant in short-term acute care facilities for both adults and adolescents, provided in-home therapy throughout Metro Atlanta, and maintained a private practice for 15 years. He holds an MS in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University and pursued additional graduate studies including seminary training in Atlanta, advanced degrees in Leadership and Apologetics, and studies in business and industrial and organizational psychology. This combination of clinical and organizational training informs a practical, systems-minded approach to therapy.

Harper has completed specialized and certificate training in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Adlerian psychology, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and parenting interventions. He favors Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy as a primary modality because it offers pragmatic tools to reduce stress and anxiety and to support more effective daily functioning. Over the course of his career he has developed experience working with trauma and has integrated interventions to address its effects. He also draws on Stoic philosophy at times as an additional framework to support resilience and perspective.

His practice emphasizes compassionate inquiry into difficulties that often stem from family dysfunction, trauma, addiction, perfection tendencies, and an intense need for approval. He aims to help clients connect past experiences with present patterns and to integrate fragmented parts of self that maintain maladaptive behaviors. A lifelong learner and author of two books, Harper approaches therapy as a collaborative journey, guiding each person to strengthen their identity capital and to claim a clearer sense of their distinct strengths and values.