About Heather
Heather Friend is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and grief. She works with people facing parenting strain, addiction, ADHD, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and issues with self-esteem or career stress. Her tone is warm and straightforward, meant to help someone who is nervous about reaching out feel a bit steadier.
Heather keeps sessions collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Background and approach
She focuses on building emotional clarity and practical skills people can use day to day. Therapy aims to help clients feel more grounded, confident, and able to handle life’s ups and downs. Her style is open-minded and nonjudgmental.
Heather emphasizes recognizing strengths and making small, steady changes. She offers a mix of talking, skill practice, and planning so people leave with things to try between sessions. Heather has eight years of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker.
She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices from Colorado. She offers weekday, evening, and weekend appointment times to fit different schedules. Sessions are 45 minutes.
Clients can message for extra support between meetings and can expect a reply within about 24 hours. Heather supports people across a wide range of concerns, including phobias, and works with each person to set goals that feel realistic and useful.
How Heather’s approaches translate to online care
Heather often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify values that guide meaningful action. ACT can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions by focusing on small, value-driven steps.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce symptoms over time. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, phobias, sleeping and eating concerns, and mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts pace and techniques as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill work, phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit short check-ins or quick support between appointments. These formats make scheduling easier with evening and weekend times, and they allow clients to keep up with therapy while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- 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
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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