About Harper West, Psychotherapist
Licensed psychotherapist in Clarkston, Michigan, helping clients experiencing Anxiety, Depression, Bi‑Polar Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Also providing Relationship Therapy, Child and Family Therapy, Mindfulness Meditation Training, Assertiveness Training, Anger Management and Domestic Violence Interventions.
Peter Mayer’s song Japanese Bowl (on YouTube) explains this philosophy beautifully.
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The Power of Self-Acceptance
Do you want to feel more calm, contented and fulfilled? Be truly self-confident? Learn how achieving self-acceptance permanently frees the mind from low self-worth and self-blaming thoughts that lie at the heart of many experiences with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and other struggles.
Improve Your Relationships
What emotion is most harmful to relationships? The answer may surprise you. Read a real life example of a rocky marriage and learn the root cause of most relationship difficulties, including high-conflict marriages and family relationships, domestic violence, abusive parenting, substance abuse and more.
An Outraged Psychologist Speaks Out
Why are normal human reactions — fear, shame, self-criticism — incorrectly labeled as “mental disorders?” The “disease” model promoted by pharmaceutical manufacturers and our mental health system discourages people from seeking therapy that can lead to solutions to anxiety, depression and more.
Recent Posts
Perfectionism is Healed by Self-Acceptance
Perfectionism is a common problem and is directly related to feelings of low self-worth or lack of self-acceptance. This article is a very nice summary of how perfectionism arises due to a lack of secure attachment to a parent. What follows is a striving to "fix" the...
read moreDo Psychologists Have a ‘Duty to Warn’ about Trump?
Do mental health professionals have a “duty to warn” about President Trump’s unstable behavior? Psychotherapist Harper West speaks out on her belief that just as psychologists would protect an abused person from further harm, we must speak out to protect the country against Trump.
read more“ADHD” is Not a Disease
I just spent the last therapy session educating a parent that "ADHD" is not a medical illness or brain defect. And then this article shows up confirming all of what I had told her. I would add that problems paying attention or sitting still are merely elevated...
read moreHow to Be Your Own Therapist
Psychotherapy can be an extremely helpful way to improve yourself and your relationships. However, I like to caution that coming to regular therapy sessions is just a PART of the healing process. If you are going into therapy you can make the most of the process by...
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