About Heather
Heather OConnell uses practical, evidence-based therapy to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. She combines straightforward talk with hands-on strategies so clients can try changes between sessions. Heather has a Masters Degree and holds the LPCC credential, and she practices in Ohio.
She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma-related concerns. Heather also supports people managing ADHD, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Sessions center on skills that reduce intense feelings and improve coping.
Background and approach
Heather draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts and shift them. She integrates mindfulness tools to calm the body and steady attention during hard moments. When trauma is part of someone's story, she uses trauma-focused approaches to address painful memories at a thoughtful pace.
Her style is direct but warm. She works to build a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and understood. Heather helps people set small, concrete goals and track progress over time.
Prior work in community mental health brought experience with a range of presenting problems and ages. That background informs her practical focus and comfort with common life stresses. She emphasizes skills people can use right away to feel more in control.
Heather invites clients to collaborate on the plan and to adjust methods as needed. She offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Evidence-based approaches available online
Heather often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change thinking patterns that increase anxiety or depression. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can try new behaviors and test different beliefs. Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to teach present-moment awareness and simple breathing or attention exercises that lower emotional reactivity and support focus.She also applies trauma-focused therapy when past events are affecting daily life; this approach works at a pace set by the client and aims to reduce the power of traumatic memories while building coping skills. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as progress is tracked.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to maintain continuity when travel or life changes occur.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English