About Heather
Heather Baker is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She works with concerns like self-esteem, grief, intimacy issues, parenting struggles, and ADHD. She also supports people facing chronic pain, illness, and disability.
Heather practices from Tennessee and offers sessions in English. Heather uses practical, hands-on approaches in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients name what feels wrong.
She teaches skills to reduce anxiety, manage intense emotions, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life steps people can try between meetings. Her style mixes evidence-based techniques with a collaborative attitude. She draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on each person’s values and goals.
She also uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. For people with trauma or painful memories, she may include EMDR methods alongside mindfulness and distress-tolerance skills. These tools are used to reduce the power of difficult memories and to help clients feel more grounded day to day.
Heather adapts her approach to each person’s history and strengths. She has six years of clinical experience and holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC. Heather aims to provide warmth, honesty, and practical tools so people can move forward from hardship.
Her work emphasizes small changes that make daily life easier.
Approaches used in online therapy and what they do
Heather commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that make anxiety or depression worse. CBT work usually includes setting small goals, practicing new ways of thinking, and tracking progress between sessions.She also integrates elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. DBT-style work focuses on building distress-tolerance, emotion regulation, and better interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and history, then suggest techniques that fit your needs. Clients and the therapist adjust methods as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy with Heather is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which provides flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions let people use visual cues and mirrors in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins, ongoing skill coaching, and easier fits around work or caregiving obligations. These formats let people access licensed professionals from where they are and keep therapy consistent with day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English