Adrian Harris, AASW
15 years in practice
Adrian Harris is an AASW clinician with 15 years' experience helping people sort through relationship and family difficulties.
License and registration
- AASW
- 208999 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Adrian
Adrian Harris is an AASW clinician with 15 years' experience helping people sort through relationship and family difficulties. He works directly with relationship distress, grief, anxiety, depression and parenting strain. His style is practical and straightforward while remaining caring and attentive.
Adrian uses Systemic ideas to look at how patterns between people shape problems. He helps clients identify repeating cycles, shift interactions and try small changes that can alter relationship dynamics.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what happens between people as much as what happens inside them. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to support emotional clarity and connection. Those approaches help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings, commit to values-based action, and understand how early bonds affect present relationships.
Adrian combines these ideas with client-centred listening to keep work grounded in each person’s needs. Many clients come with trauma, family of origin issues, or intimacy concerns. Adrian works with concerns such as abandonment, codependency, body image, communication problems, and blended family stresses.
He supports people coping with life changes and recovery from abuse, addiction, separation and loss. Sessions are offered in English from Australia. Adrian aims to co-create practical plans that fit everyday life.
He encourages small, sustainable steps and clear goals so progress can be noticed between sessions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Adrian lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Adrian names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Systemic ideas focus on how relationships and patterns of interaction keep problems going. In online sessions Adrian helps people spot these cycles, test small changes and track how interactions shift over time. This is useful for partners, parents and individuals facing recurring conflict or communication breakdown.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. The emphasis is on choosing actions that match personal values despite discomfort, which helps with anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current closeness and trust. It helps people understand emotional needs, improve connection and work through intimacy or abandonment concerns.
Finding the best mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Adrian will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt methods to suit their situation. Together they choose a plan that fits needs, pace and real-life obligations.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a short check-in. Live chat or messaging suits brief support, written reflection or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible for work, childcare or mobility needs and help people keep continuity between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does he help with?
He supports people facing relationship distress, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, grief, intimacy concerns, eating concerns and depression.
How would you describe his therapy style?
He uses a collaborative, practical style that combines Systemic thinking with acceptance and attachment-focused work. Sessions aim to notice interaction patterns and try manageable changes.
What experience does he bring to sessions?
He has 15 years' clinical experience working with relationship and family challenges and with people recovering from trauma, loss and addiction.
What credentials and location are associated with his practice?
He is listed with the AASW and practices from Australia.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and Adrian does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
People can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on their preference.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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