About Heather
Heather Pack is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in school counseling, mental health, and substance use support. She brings a warm, down-to-earth approach and a focus on practical steps people can use right away. Heather aims to make talking about hard things easier and less overwhelming.
She has led addiction treatment programs, offered case management for people with serious mental illness, and supported hundreds of clients through big life changes.
Background and approach
That range of experience shapes a flexible, real-world style in sessions. Heather often helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns while also addressing relationship strain and issues around intimacy and parenting. Her approach centers on listening closely and adapting methods to each person.
She uses client-centered techniques to build trust, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness to increase calm. Heather also draws on dialectical behavior skills and hypnotherapy when those tools match a client's needs. Heather currently works as a school counselor in West Virginia and offers online counseling to reach people who cannot easily travel.
She supports people coping with bipolar disorder, ADHD, trauma, grief, caregiving stress, and life transitions. Her aim is to help clients find small, doable steps toward better daily functioning. Outside counseling, Heather teaches dance and enjoys reading nonfiction about resilience and recovery.
She brings curiosity and a steady presence to sessions, and she collaborates with each person to set goals and track progress.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. It helps build trust and guides the session agenda based on the client's priorities rather than a fixed script. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Heather will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative planning helps match techniques like CBT or mindfulness to the issues someone brings in, such as stress, trauma, or addiction recovery.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people and their therapist use visual cues for skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and brief check-ins between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent care even when travel or schedules are a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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