About Belinda
Dr. Belinda Harlow is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Kentucky with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate family concerns, grief and loss, parenting stresses, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and respectful, and she aims to meet people where they are. She uses somatic ideas alongside talk therapy to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body.
Background and approach
She pairs that with attachment-based work to look at relationship patterns and client-centered listening to shape sessions around each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools and emotionally-focused methods appear when practical for shifting thoughts and affecting relationships. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and body image, anger, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
She also addresses adoption and foster care matters, abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and aging-related questions. The focus is on concrete steps individuals can try between sessions. Dr.
Harlow frames therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions are tailored so people can test different strategies and see what helps. She emphasizes clear, compassionate conversation and practical coping skills that fit daily life.
To begin, she asks people to share their goals and current struggles so a plan can be built together. The overall aim is to increase the skills and confidence needed to manage life’s challenges and build more satisfying connections.
How somatic and attachment approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on how thoughts and feelings show up in the body. Online sessions may include gentle attention to breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to help people notice stress and regulate arousal. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma-related reactions, and managing strong emotions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections shape current reactions. In sessions, the therapist helps identify recurring relationship dynamics and offers new ways to respond that build safety and better communication.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring the session to each person. The therapist follows the client’s pace, mirrors concerns, and helps them find their own solutions rather than imposing a fixed plan.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
If you plan to meet online, confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people fit sessions into a busy day and use techniques in real-life settings between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English