Christopher Harris

Christopher C. Harris is a man of faith and a man of science. Finding the balance between extremes has been a continuous theme of his life. Born as a gifted intellectual in an underserved environment, his gifts were quickly recognized when he was promoted from the second grade to the third grade in the middle of the school year. Harnessing this gift as an adult, Christopher has created a comprehensive public health initiative called, The CCH Approach. This intensive holistic health service integrates evidenced-based practices with Christopher’s own original theories, assessments, and interventions. The CCH Approach focuses on helping people increase the effectiveness of their activities daily living, reduce the risk of self-defeating and danger-inducing decision-making, while supporting their ability to identify and rectify unresolved or unacknowledged trauma. The primary purpose of The CCH Approach centers on supporting every individual (Foundational Self) to achieve Optimum Wellness. Optimum Wellness in The CCH Approach is achieving the highest levels of health for an individuals’ physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual bodies. The integration of these bodies, and each individual’s autonomous responsiblity to function for themselves, is called The Foundational Self in The CCH Approach. The secondary purpose of The CCH Approach is to increase the quality of clients’ relational health, both interpersonally and systemically. Christopher believes that the relational health of families, communities, and organizations are best achieved when each Foundational Self is committed to their increasing their Optimum Wellness. This commitment increases their ability to accept and adhere to the responsibilities of living in social systems. For each Public Health Service offered using The CCH Approach, Christopher facilitates a Humanistic and Person-Centered journey that progresses through his iteration of the Three Stages of Clinical Counseling: Initial Stage (Learning) Working Stage (Healing) Ending Stage (Growing The Initial Stage focuses on building a strong therapeutic alliance with individuals, families, teams, and organizations. As a relationship-based practitioner, Chris utilizes the professional relationship as the primary vehicle of service delivery. Once the foundation for a healthy relationship are in place, the focus centers on learning the origins of the presenting problems in a person’s life, and teaching them the science behind those problems. The initial stage focuses on establishing a strong therapeutic alliance of trust between participants and practitioner, maintaining psychological and emotional safety. Themes of the initial stage include relationship-building from a psychoeducational focus based in mindfulness awareness and intentional implementation of emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, and trauma-informed care. The second stage of Clinical Counseling is called the Working Stage. The CCH Approach identifies this is as the Healing Stage, introducing a clinical approach called Trauma Rectification Therapy. Trauma Rectification Therapy focuses on reducing the negative impact of symptoms of post-traumatic stress, while reducing cultural and relational health barriers to optimum wellness through identification and rectification of traumatic experiences, contributing to any self-defeating or danger-inducing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Services conclude with the Ending Stage, what Christopher calls the Growth Stage of treatment. The focus of the Growth Stage centers on supporting the client in implementing the new patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving into their lifestyle. The Growth Stage also focuses on supporting the client in stress inoculation and development of person-centered plans for maintaining and building upon progress made in treatment.