About Heather
Heather Cooper is an Ohio-licensed counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Heather also supports clients facing career strain, grief, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related questions.
Heather believes each person knows their story best. She treats clients as partners and builds on their strengths. That makes room for honest conversations about what feels stuck and what might change.
Background and approach
Her sessions tend to be straightforward and practical. Heather uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect, then brings in tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to explore values, meaning, and patterns in a person’s life.
People meet Heather when they want clear skills for stress and mood management. She offers techniques for handling difficult thoughts, improving communication, and managing intense feelings. She also helps with longer-term challenges like identity questions, complicated grief, and relationship patterns.
Heather aims to make the first steps manageable. She supports goal-setting and small experiments people can try between sessions. Over time she helps clients track progress and adjust strategies so therapy fits real life.
How Heather’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. It starts with careful listening and reflection so the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them build on strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear steps people can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal skills. It can help people who struggle with strong mood swings, anger, or relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining listening-focused care with specific CBT or DBT techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy makes these methods more flexible. Video calls let therapy feel like a regular appointment while keeping face-to-face connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or a way to work through skills between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English