About Heather
Heather White-McClane is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She practices in Georgia and uses straightforward, practical methods. Her approach aims to make therapy feel manageable and clear for someone juggling everyday life.
She focuses on building skills people can use right away. That includes coping strategies for anxiety and stress, tools to manage impulsivity and addictive behaviors, and ways to rebuild confidence after setbacks.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady pace and center on what the person wants to change. Heather blends several approaches to suit each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters most to the individual.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Motivational interviewing is used to help people find their own reasons to change. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.
Together these methods give practical steps rather than abstract theory. Her background over three decades includes helping people with relationship problems like communication and commitment issues, as well as life transitions such as divorce, aging, and grief. She also supports people coping with guilt, shame, abandonment, and medical concerns like HIV/AIDS.
Heather aims to make therapy a collaborative process focused on clear goals and steady progress.
How her methods fit into online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person's priorities first by focusing sessions on what matters most to them. It helps build a trusting working relationship and makes sure therapy topics match real-life concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior to find practical changes that reduce anxiety and depression. It is useful for stress, low mood, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling impulsive reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they review what's working and adjust the focus as needs change, so therapy stays aligned with progress and real-world demands.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a gentler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, timely check-ins between appointments and can fit into busy schedules. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English