About Heather
Heather Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting challenges. She practices from Georgia and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Heather aims to meet each person where they are and treat them with respect and compassion.
Her approach is flexible and conversational. She listens first, then helps set small goals that feel doable.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's situation so therapy fits daily life rather than adding more overwhelm. Heather uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and increase values-driven action. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed. Many people seek her help for relationship strain, grief, self-esteem and parenting stress. She also supports those managing addictions, ADHD, chronic health struggles, career changes, and identity-related concerns for LGBT clients.
Heather helps people work through control issues, communication problems, and commitment or intimacy worries. Her style is warm and straightforward. She will work with you to build a plan you can try between sessions.
Heather encourages small steps and tracks progress so changes feel real and manageable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching values-based choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that fuel problems like anxiety or low mood through clear exercises and practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences affect current patterns and can help with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Heather will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods that match your goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying approaches, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan together so therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let you see facial cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or ongoing support without scheduling every interaction. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and other obligations while still getting consistent care.
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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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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