About Heather
Heather Guthrie, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life changes. She also offers coaching to build clearer goals and coping strategies. Heather brings two decades of clinical experience to conversations that often feel heavy and urgent.
Her style is practical and respectful. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens first, then offers tools and short exercises people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Heather treats each person as the expert on their own life while providing guidance when choices feel overwhelming. Heather uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in identifying values and taking committed action. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches shape how she builds trust and responds to relationship concerns. She has worked across settings for 20 years and is licensed as an LCSW in Oregon.
That background includes helping people manage chronic illness, caregiving stress, and relationship conflict tied to attachment issues. Heather also supports people dealing with grief, cancer, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person.
Heather offers practical homework when it fits, such as short mindfulness exercises or steps to try between appointments. The aim is steady progress and clearer choices, one session at a time.
How Heather’s approaches work online
Heather commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working with anxiety, stress, or life transitions. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels.She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to shape how she connects. That means paying attention to relationship patterns and creating a respectful, responsive conversation. The therapist and client work together to pick methods that fit the person’s goals and comfort level, adjusting as needed over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while staying consistent with treatment.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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