About Heather
Heather Schmit is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults facing life changes, parenting strain, grief, trauma, workplace challenges, and questions about purpose and self-worth. Heather speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Her approach starts with listening. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to build trust and understand each person’s goals. From there she blends methods such as cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness so clients learn new ways to respond to tough thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
For people processing painful memories, Heather incorporates EMDR-informed strategies when appropriate. She also draws on emotionally-focused techniques to help people clarify what they need from important relationships and to strengthen emotional connection with themselves. Sessions emphasize clear skills - coping tools for panic or sleepless nights, communication practice for tense relationships, and exercises that support healthier boundaries and self-care.
Heather aims to make work feel doable and relevant to daily life. With six years of experience, she centers collaboration and steady progress over time. People who want straightforward, compassionate help with mood, trauma, parenting pressures, or workplace stress may find her style direct and encouraging.
How Heather’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals and experience. Online sessions use that same attention to help clients clarify what they want to change and to set achievable steps forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts and to build behavior changes that ease anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems.Heather also uses emotionally-focused techniques to help people identify and communicate important feelings in relationships, and EMDR-informed strategies to address lingering trauma when appropriate. Each approach targets concrete symptoms and patterns, such as panic, avoidance, or repeated conflict, rather than abstract labels.
Finding the right method is part of therapy. Heather works together with clients to try approaches, see what helps, and adapt plans to fit goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes setting small experiments between sessions and checking in about what feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for longer therapy work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and ongoing processing between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English