About Heather
Heather Raitz is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She works with individuals who are trying to regain confidence, handle life changes, or build practical coping skills. Heather speaks plainly and aims to make each conversation feel respectful and down-to-earth.
Heather holds a Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW, and brings ten years of professional experience in clinical settings. She adapts her approach to fit each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that feels manageable while focusing on steps that lead to real change. Her work covers a range of concerns including attention differences, panic and phobic reactions, social anxiety, and the effects of past trauma. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, attachment difficulties, dissociative experiences, and issues common to first responders.
Heather includes coaching-style supports when clients want concrete tools for professional or executive goals. Therapy conversations draw on several methods such as attachment-informed work, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, psychodynamic ideas, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Heather explains options clearly and helps people try approaches that match their needs.
The goal is steady progress on problems that feel urgent right now. Heather practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. She focuses on building practical skills, increasing resilience, and helping people find clearer direction when life feels overwhelming.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Heather uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions, which can help when fear or safety feels tangled with past connections. Client-centered therapy means conversations focus on the person's experience, with the therapist listening and reflecting so goals come from the client rather than a preset plan. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, as an option for people who want a structured method to reduce the intensity of troubling memories or reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk with each person about their history, goals, and comfort with different methods. Together they choose or adapt techniques that match what the person hopes to change, and Heather checks in frequently to see what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady momentum toward their goals.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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