Graham Harriman, LPC

Graham Harriman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with 14 years of experience in mental health care. His work emphasizes mindfulness and mind-body awareness delivered through a person-centered, existential framework, and he brings a non-religious spiritual perspective that attends to an individual’s relationship to self and to others.

He has specialized training in couples therapy, group therapy, sex and intimacy concerns, and sexuality with extensive experience in LGBTQ issues. His clinical background includes substance use and harm-reduction work - with focused experience addressing crystal methamphetamine use - as well as care for depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders. He also integrates efforts to raise awareness of racism and white privilege into his practice.

Across a diverse career, Graham has worked as a mental health therapist, mental health program manager, public health program director, and community services planner, collaborating with a broad cross section of service providers and people with HIV to allocate resources and shape services. He is also coauthor of the newly released book the Healing Power of Community: Mutual Aid, AIDS, and Social Transformation in Psychology.

Approaches and Online Care with Graham Harriman

Graham works from a client-centered model that prioritizes the individual's experience and values, offering a supportive space where clients set goals and the therapist follows their lead to build insight and practical change. This approach is well suited to relationship concerns, self-esteem work, and navigating life transitions.

He also integrates existential therapy, which explores meaning, choice, and personal responsibility. This approach can help people wrestling with questions of identity, life purpose, grief, or profound change by clarifying values and possibilities.

Mindfulness therapy is woven through his practice as an accessible way to increase present-moment awareness and mind-body connection, which can ease stress, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and patterns linked to substance use.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Graham collaborates with each person to identify methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and he adapts strategies over time based on what proves most helpful.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it possible to engage in consistent care from varied locations and to choose the mode of interaction that feels most comfortable for each client.