About Heather
Heather Pack is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. Heather works from West Virginia and offers online care when in-person access is limited.
Her background includes school counseling, mental health counseling, and substance abuse work. She has run addiction treatment programs and provided case management for people with serious psychiatric needs.
Background and approach
That range of settings gives her experience with many common and complex challenges. In sessions she uses straightforward tools to help people cope and make changes. Techniques come from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral strategies, and skills-based systems such as dialectical behavior therapy.
Heather also integrates mindfulness practices and hypnotherapy when appropriate to support relaxation and focus. Heather pays attention to relationships and life transitions. She helps people with parenting strain, intimacy and relationship concerns, grieving changes, and the stress that comes from caregiving or chronic illness.
She also supports those navigating identity issues, addiction recovery, ADHD, and co-occurring conditions. Outside of clinical work she teaches dance and reads nonfiction about trauma and resilience. That mix of creative and curious interests informs a collaborative, human approach in therapy.
Heather aims to listen carefully, offer practical steps, and help each person build on their strengths.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Heather uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful space where the person's goals set the direction. This approach focuses on listening, understanding each person's experience, and working at a pace that feels right to them.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress management, and many everyday struggles.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress is made and goals evolve.
Online therapy with Heather uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or flexible scheduling around work or caregiving. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and to keep therapy consistent amid a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English