About Harout
Harout "Harry" Ohannessian helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, trauma, or big life changes. He meets individuals who are carrying anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship pain and focuses on steady, practical support.
Background and approach
Harry uses clear, direct conversation to help people feel understood and less alone. He draws on 11 years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology.
Harry is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT practicing in California. He speaks English, Arabic, and Armenian and aims to make therapy understandable and approachable.
In sessions he listens for core patterns that keep distress repeating. He uses a mix of approaches to address thoughts, feelings, and relational habits rather than relying on a single method.
That means working on skills for managing strong emotions and also looking at how past experiences shape present reactions. His work often focuses on healing after trauma and rebuilding a sense of safety in relationships.
He also supports people managing mood struggles, eating concerns, anger, and complicated grief. Practical tools are paired with space to talk through painful memories and changing beliefs about oneself.
Therapy with Harry is collaborative. He helps clients set clear, realistic goals and checks in as progress unfolds.
The pace is adjusted to each person’s needs so therapy stays useful and grounded in everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connections and trust. It helps people who struggle with closeness, fear of abandonment, or patterns that repeat in relationships by focusing on building safer ways to relate to others.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and reflection to help people clarify values and make choices that fit their life goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. It provides practical exercises and coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to choose what feels most useful based on their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different methods and adjusting over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Arabic, Armenian