About Heather
Heather Rink-Rosas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience in California. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, or the strain of addiction. Her style is respectful and direct, and she speaks both English and Spanish.
Heather uses a mix of practical techniques to help clients notice thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that keep problems going. She often draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice different ways of coping.
Background and approach
She also brings in skills from acceptance and commitment work and emotion-focused approaches when those fit the situation. Sessions begin with a conversation about what matters most to the client. Heather tailors each plan to the person in front of her rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Expect clear, step-by-step feedback and real-life strategies to try between sessions. She has worked with concerns such as trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood issues, relationship strain, family-related stress, and body image worries. Heather also addresses topics like attachment, adoption and foster care histories, codependency, and coping after loss.
Practical details are handled through flexible formats including video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How online sessions use CBT and ACT to tackle phobias and anxiety
Heather often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients notice and change thought patterns that keep anxiety and phobias active. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them in real life, and practicing new responses to reduce fear and avoidance.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people build a life around their values while learning to make room for difficult feelings. ACT teaches skills for noticing sensations and thoughts without being driven by them, which can reduce the power of phobic reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heather works collaboratively to choose techniques that match each person's goals and comfort level. Over time she adjusts methods based on what is helpful and what feels doable for the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work like role practice and exposure planning. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let clients send updates or work through skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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