Positive Psychology Therapists in Saint Louis, MO
I want to help you frame a new mindset, build your performance, construct a new inner view and teardown your past trauma. Let me help you become your best self.
I want to help you frame a new mindset, build your performance, construct a new inner view and teardown your past trauma. Let me help you become your best self.
Are you struggling because of something that happened in the recent or distant past? Have you experienced something traumatic like abuse, combat, physical violence, rape or robbery? Do you view the world negatively? Have you re-experienced the past or feel like 'it's happening all over again"? Do you avoid things you used to do for fear of being reminded of the past? Do you hate when people bring it up? You may be struggling with trauma triggers.
Are you struggling because of something that happened in the recent or distant past? Have you experienced something traumatic like abuse, combat, physical violence, rape or robbery? Do you view the world negatively? Have you re-experienced the past or feel like 'it's happening all over again"? Do you avoid things you used to do for fear of being reminded of the past? Do you hate when people bring it up? You may be struggling with trauma triggers.
Struggling with stress, sadness or hopelessness even grief? Feeling like your best isn't good enough, tired and beat down? You are not alone, I am here to help.
As a therapist, you'll find I'm empathetic, non-judgmental and provide a safe place where adults can lay their heart and soul. As a client you will experience the butterfly effect. Which involves you acknowledging what needs to change, accepting you're a part of the change and taking ownership of your power to change. Together we will navigate through the difficult times creating balance and defining your purpose.
Struggling with stress, sadness or hopelessness even grief? Feeling like your best isn't good enough, tired and beat down? You are not alone, I am here to help.
As a therapist, you'll find I'm empathetic, non-judgmental and provide a safe place where adults can lay their heart and soul. As a client you will experience the butterfly effect. Which involves you acknowledging what needs to change, accepting you're a part of the change and taking ownership of your power to change. Together we will navigate through the difficult times creating balance and defining your purpose.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, eating disorders, sports performance, or relationships, it can feel overwhelming, isolating, and exhausting. You do not have to navigate those challenges alone. My goal is to create a warm, supportive space where you feel safe to be yourself and where we can work together toward healing, growth, and lasting change. Throughout the therapeutic process, we will explore the experiences and patterns contributing to your struggles while helping you build a healthier, more compassionate relationship with yourself and the people around you.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, eating disorders, sports performance, or relationships, it can feel overwhelming, isolating, and exhausting. You do not have to navigate those challenges alone. My goal is to create a warm, supportive space where you feel safe to be yourself and where we can work together toward healing, growth, and lasting change. Throughout the therapeutic process, we will explore the experiences and patterns contributing to your struggles while helping you build a healthier, more compassionate relationship with yourself and the people around you.
My clients seek help with a specific difficulty. It may be depression, anxiety, PTSD, relationships, or their path in life. They want to feel happy and fulfilled but have been blocked by some difficulty. When they reach out to accept help they have made the first step in their journey of healing and happiness! We all deserve happiness and modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides tools and processes to unblock the natural flow of healing available to us. Plus, anyone can become proficient in using the tools, tips, and techniques and applying them to situations in their life.
My clients seek help with a specific difficulty. It may be depression, anxiety, PTSD, relationships, or their path in life. They want to feel happy and fulfilled but have been blocked by some difficulty. When they reach out to accept help they have made the first step in their journey of healing and happiness! We all deserve happiness and modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides tools and processes to unblock the natural flow of healing available to us. Plus, anyone can become proficient in using the tools, tips, and techniques and applying them to situations in their life.
You might look like you have it together. And in a lot of ways, you do. But there's something underneath that doesn't quite match — a low hum of anxiety, a pattern in your relationships you can't seem to break. You keep up with things. You manage. But something feels off, and it's been there longer than you'd like to admit. A lot of people get good at pushing through. It works, until it doesn't — until the cost shows up in your closest relationships, or in the quiet moments when you're left alone with yourself. Therapy is a place to slow down and look at what's actually happening beneath the surface.
You might look like you have it together. And in a lot of ways, you do. But there's something underneath that doesn't quite match — a low hum of anxiety, a pattern in your relationships you can't seem to break. You keep up with things. You manage. But something feels off, and it's been there longer than you'd like to admit. A lot of people get good at pushing through. It works, until it doesn't — until the cost shows up in your closest relationships, or in the quiet moments when you're left alone with yourself. Therapy is a place to slow down and look at what's actually happening beneath the surface.
My ideal client is a woman who appears high-functioning but feels emotionally exhausted inside. She may carry unresolved trauma, relationship wounds, chronic stress, or burnout and feels stuck despite insight or previous therapy. She wants relief, clarity, and a felt sense of safety in her body—not just coping tools. She values privacy, depth, and efficiency and is ready to invest in meaningful healing that helps her move forward rather than repeat the same emotional cycles.
My ideal client is a woman who appears high-functioning but feels emotionally exhausted inside. She may carry unresolved trauma, relationship wounds, chronic stress, or burnout and feels stuck despite insight or previous therapy. She wants relief, clarity, and a felt sense of safety in her body—not just coping tools. She values privacy, depth, and efficiency and is ready to invest in meaningful healing that helps her move forward rather than repeat the same emotional cycles.
I help high-functioning individuals heal from anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency so they can stop people-pleasing, set boundaries without guilt, and trust themselves again. I also specialize in treating the long-term effects of narcissistic abuse. My therapy style is warm, collaborative, and empowering. I offer both in-person therapy in St. Louis and virtual sessions across 47 states via PSYPACT. Clients often tell me they feel truly seen and understood, sometimes for the first time in therapy. If you're tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and carrying everyone else's emotional load, you're in the right place.
I help high-functioning individuals heal from anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency so they can stop people-pleasing, set boundaries without guilt, and trust themselves again. I also specialize in treating the long-term effects of narcissistic abuse. My therapy style is warm, collaborative, and empowering. I offer both in-person therapy in St. Louis and virtual sessions across 47 states via PSYPACT. Clients often tell me they feel truly seen and understood, sometimes for the first time in therapy. If you're tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and carrying everyone else's emotional load, you're in the right place.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Christine Shore-Fitzgerald
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
1 Endorsed
Saint Louis, MO 63117
Major life changes, invalidating home/social lives, past trauma, and current stressors affect our relationships, often leaving us repeating unhelpful patterns. I will collaborate with you to provide a warm, safe, nonjudgmental space, supporting you while you develop interpersonal skills, learn to manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and improve self-awareness so you can make changes toward living the life you desire. "There is nothing you can tell me that I won't find beautiful and human."-Cheryl Strayed
Major life changes, invalidating home/social lives, past trauma, and current stressors affect our relationships, often leaving us repeating unhelpful patterns. I will collaborate with you to provide a warm, safe, nonjudgmental space, supporting you while you develop interpersonal skills, learn to manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and improve self-awareness so you can make changes toward living the life you desire. "There is nothing you can tell me that I won't find beautiful and human."-Cheryl Strayed
Dr. David M Harris
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
2 Endorsed
Saint Louis, MO 63117
Waitlist for new clients
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker offering brief and extended therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups. My mission as a therapist is to promote healing, positive ways of balancing, and joy in daily living. I cherish the opportunity to learn, teach, support, and challenge through my client's greatest hardships and most brilliant moments. My style is interactive and supportive, yet challenging. I adapt a variety of therapeutic approaches that focus on my clients' daily interactions. Our work together will help you Create a Life YOU Love! Positive By Design.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker offering brief and extended therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups. My mission as a therapist is to promote healing, positive ways of balancing, and joy in daily living. I cherish the opportunity to learn, teach, support, and challenge through my client's greatest hardships and most brilliant moments. My style is interactive and supportive, yet challenging. I adapt a variety of therapeutic approaches that focus on my clients' daily interactions. Our work together will help you Create a Life YOU Love! Positive By Design.
Life transitions are the new beginning; unfortunately, past experiences, insecurities, trauma, and grief can influence the present behavior & actions, making life transitions emotionally exhausting while achieving the same results, and exacerbating feelings of being stuck in a rut. If you are tired of starting over and want to learn your Why, When, & How you self-sabotage your change, success & relationships. If you want to gain mastery over your emotions, with clarity, focus, and commitment to your life goals, grow personally/professionally, feel more in control, and be less stressed, than I am the therapeutic coach you need.
Life transitions are the new beginning; unfortunately, past experiences, insecurities, trauma, and grief can influence the present behavior & actions, making life transitions emotionally exhausting while achieving the same results, and exacerbating feelings of being stuck in a rut. If you are tired of starting over and want to learn your Why, When, & How you self-sabotage your change, success & relationships. If you want to gain mastery over your emotions, with clarity, focus, and commitment to your life goals, grow personally/professionally, feel more in control, and be less stressed, than I am the therapeutic coach you need.
My experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults and their families at intensive residential programs, day treatment, social skills/life skills programs and outpatient clinics. I utilize a strengths-based, relational approach, to best meet my clients where they are at. Through humor, compassion and curiosity, I aim to facilitate an environment where my clients can feel supported in facing their life challenges. Each individual that comes to therapy has a distinct set of goals and perspectives, which will be prioritized during our therapeutic process.
My experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults and their families at intensive residential programs, day treatment, social skills/life skills programs and outpatient clinics. I utilize a strengths-based, relational approach, to best meet my clients where they are at. Through humor, compassion and curiosity, I aim to facilitate an environment where my clients can feel supported in facing their life challenges. Each individual that comes to therapy has a distinct set of goals and perspectives, which will be prioritized during our therapeutic process.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
Are you ready for something different and looking for someone that truly listens and provides a space for you to be yourself without fear of judgement? The foundations of my therapeutic approach are compassion, empathy, and trust. Seeking help for your mental health takes courage, especially when you are struggling. I work collaboratively with clients and utilize a strengths-based approach to help them address their mental health needs, work towards their goals, and live a more fulfilling, meaningful life. Working together, we will explore your unique circumstances to help you make the changes you are seeking.
Are you ready for something different and looking for someone that truly listens and provides a space for you to be yourself without fear of judgement? The foundations of my therapeutic approach are compassion, empathy, and trust. Seeking help for your mental health takes courage, especially when you are struggling. I work collaboratively with clients and utilize a strengths-based approach to help them address their mental health needs, work towards their goals, and live a more fulfilling, meaningful life. Working together, we will explore your unique circumstances to help you make the changes you are seeking.
Everyone has a story to tell. Sometimes it is filled with dark twists and turns, shadows, and the unexpected. Other times it is full of light, gentle breezes, and warmth. Stories are often full of both and it can be daunting to try and revisit some of the harder chapters alone. I offer a place of solace for your stories. A place where we can open and read each chapter of it together, learn from them, and gather tools to face the battles ahead. A place where we can challenge the things that still haunt us from these stories, and then put them on a shelf, a reminder of where you came from and what you’ve overcome.
Everyone has a story to tell. Sometimes it is filled with dark twists and turns, shadows, and the unexpected. Other times it is full of light, gentle breezes, and warmth. Stories are often full of both and it can be daunting to try and revisit some of the harder chapters alone. I offer a place of solace for your stories. A place where we can open and read each chapter of it together, learn from them, and gather tools to face the battles ahead. A place where we can challenge the things that still haunt us from these stories, and then put them on a shelf, a reminder of where you came from and what you’ve overcome.
My ideal client is someone who feels overwhelmed, isolated, or unsupported. I work with a variety of populations, helping individuals navigate fear, uncertainty, and life’s challenges. Whether you're struggling with trauma, anxiety, or life transitions, I offer a compassionate, empathetic approach rooted in active listening and understanding. My goal is to build trust and provide support, especially for those who feel abandoned by others. With years of experience and a Master’s in Counseling, I’m here to empower you on your healing journey.
My ideal client is someone who feels overwhelmed, isolated, or unsupported. I work with a variety of populations, helping individuals navigate fear, uncertainty, and life’s challenges. Whether you're struggling with trauma, anxiety, or life transitions, I offer a compassionate, empathetic approach rooted in active listening and understanding. My goal is to build trust and provide support, especially for those who feel abandoned by others. With years of experience and a Master’s in Counseling, I’m here to empower you on your healing journey.
You’re not broken. You’re human.
If you’ve been struggling with anxiety, depression, or major life changes, it’s easy to feel stuck, exhausted, or even hopeless. Maybe you’ve tried pushing through, praying harder, or pretending everything’s fine—but deep down, you know something has to change.
I get it - because I've been there, too. I am passionate about helping people like you find relief, rediscover hope, and take back control of your life.
You’re not broken. You’re human.
If you’ve been struggling with anxiety, depression, or major life changes, it’s easy to feel stuck, exhausted, or even hopeless. Maybe you’ve tried pushing through, praying harder, or pretending everything’s fine—but deep down, you know something has to change.
I get it - because I've been there, too. I am passionate about helping people like you find relief, rediscover hope, and take back control of your life.
Life can feel unbearably heavy when you’re carrying trauma, chronic stress, or generational patterns that you never chose. You might feel exhausted, misunderstood, or stuck in cycles you can’t seem to break. I believe you’re doing the best you can with the resources you’ve had — and therapy can give you the support, clarity, and tools you deserve. My telehealth practice offers a warm, real, non-judgmental space for adults of all ages in Kansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin who are ready to heal and reconnect with themselves.
Life can feel unbearably heavy when you’re carrying trauma, chronic stress, or generational patterns that you never chose. You might feel exhausted, misunderstood, or stuck in cycles you can’t seem to break. I believe you’re doing the best you can with the resources you’ve had — and therapy can give you the support, clarity, and tools you deserve. My telehealth practice offers a warm, real, non-judgmental space for adults of all ages in Kansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin who are ready to heal and reconnect with themselves.
I support individuals, couples, and youth struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship issues. This fast paced life can be overwhelming. Jobs are stressful and demanding. Sometimes finding that additional reserve of calm needed for managing our intimate relationships and child rearing can be challenging. With over 15 years as a creative professional, I understand the stress of managing interpersonal conflicts with a difficult boss or co-workers, unmanageable workloads, and the ongoing demands of an ever-changing, competitive work environment.
I support individuals, couples, and youth struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship issues. This fast paced life can be overwhelming. Jobs are stressful and demanding. Sometimes finding that additional reserve of calm needed for managing our intimate relationships and child rearing can be challenging. With over 15 years as a creative professional, I understand the stress of managing interpersonal conflicts with a difficult boss or co-workers, unmanageable workloads, and the ongoing demands of an ever-changing, competitive work environment.
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Positive Psychology Therapists
How does positive psychology therapy work?
Positive psychology therapy derives from the work of Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. He and others developed the field of positive psychology building on humanistic theory. Positive psychology therapy is similar to acceptance and commitment therapy, and it essentially quiets emotional distress through positivity, contentment, and well-being. This therapy does not reduce the individual to symptoms and conditions.
When do I know if I need treatment using positive psychology?
If an individual is overwhelmed by emotional distress and general negativity, they may feel trapped. A positive psychology therapist can help them view their emotions and behaviors differently, and approach life with a better understanding of their positive strengths. This therapy can provide an individual with the coping skills needed for a healthier and more constructive life.
What should I expect from positive psychology therapy?
The patient may be asked to explore their signature strengths. The therapist will also ask the individual to talk about their goals, which should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Discussing negative experiences and symptoms is important, but so is the exploration of positive experiences. The objective is to identify and lessen negative thoughts and behaviors and move toward optimal health and productivity. The individual will see life in a more positive and fulfilling way. This therapy is proactive and may use forgiveness, gratitude, hope, and compassion to help reframe negativity.
Is positive psychology effective in therapy?
Positive psychology therapy is evidence-based and effective. One study found that people with eating disorders benefit from this type of intervention. This therapy encourages the person to reframe their distressed thoughts and move into healthier patterns of functioning. This therapy also aims to move an individual toward what works well in their life. Positive psychology therapy can elicit lifelong change, with higher levels of satisfaction, less stress, as well as positive emotional and behavioral habits.