About Heather
Heather Dominguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska with more than 26 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers care to people across different regions, including international clients. Heather is approachable and straightforward, and she focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strains, and other life changes.
Her work has included crisis counseling, vocational guidance, and support for substance use and trauma.
Background and approach
She spent several years supporting communities in the Northwest Arctic and on the Kenai Peninsula, doing front-line work with first responders and families affected by sudden loss. That time shaped her practical, calm approach to difficult moments. Heather uses several therapeutic methods to meet different needs.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice thoughts and shift behaviors. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-focused work and incorporates client-centered and mindfulness ideas to keep sessions grounded in the person’s goals.
Sessions can address a wide range of concerns, from depression, bipolar disorder, and addictions to parenting strain, body image, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Heather also works with issues related to adoption, abandonment, blended families, caregiving stress, and coping after disasters. Her training includes a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling and earlier study in psychology.
Heather describes herself as practical and respectful of each person’s values, including faith when that is important to the client.
Therapeutic tools Heather uses in online care
Heather commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. ACT focuses on building skills to accept feelings while moving toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and stress management because it breaks issues into clear steps to practice between sessions.
Heather includes EMDR for trauma-focused work when that approach fits a person’s history and goals. EMDR involves guided processing aimed at reducing the intensity of traumatic memories and the emotional reactions tied to them.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and past treatments to shape a plan together. She adapts methods over time so the work matches what helps most in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules or reach clinicians across regions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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