About Heather
Heather Goodman-D'Anna is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns while addressing relationship and parenting challenges. Heather emphasizes a straightforward, nonjudgmental approach that encourages honest conversation and practical steps forward.
In sessions she listens first and tailors guidance to each person's needs. She often uses client-centered methods to ensure people feel heard, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused ideas are used to break problems into manageable steps. Heather has worked with a wide range of issues including self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns. She also addresses attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin wounds.
Her practice includes support around gender dysphoria and LGBTQ matters, as well as topics related to kink and alternative sexual culture. She aims to make the therapy process clear and approachable. Sessions focus on concrete tools - simple skills to reduce anxiety, improve communication, or handle life changes.
Heather helps clients set realistic goals and tracks progress together. People who choose her often want a listening therapist who also offers practical strategies. Heather encourages small steps and steady change rather than dramatic promises.
If you want calm guidance and clear techniques, she offers an open space to start talking and planning next steps.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns. It helps people feel understood and shapes the work around their goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work done together. Heather will discuss goals, try methods that fit a person’s needs, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online formats in Heather's practice include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and do deeper sessions. Phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging allow brief exchanges, daily check-ins, or follow-up between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and use whichever format supports steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English