About Heather
Heather Wilkie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She emphasizes clear goals and real-world strategies so people can cope better with stress, anxiety, relationship and identity concerns including LGBTQ issues and phobias. Heather uses straightforward talk and active listening.
She helps people name what feels hardest and tries simple, manageable steps to change how they respond. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each persons comfort.
Background and approach
With nine years of clinical experience, Heather has supported people through grief, trauma, mood concerns, and life transitions. She also works with difficulties like addiction, sleep and eating struggles, parenting strain, and career stress. Attachment, body image, ADHD, and intimacy issues are among other common focuses.
Her approach blends practical strategies from cognitive behavioral methods with acceptance and values-based work. She pairs that with client-centered listening and relationship-focused techniques to address how people connect and communicate. The result is a mix of skill-building and reflective conversation.
Heather aims to help people make steady, realistic changes. That can mean reducing avoidance around fears, improving communication, or building routines that support mood and sleep. She encourages small experiments you can try between sessions and checks what does or does not work.
How Heather blends approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings appear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, phobias, and mood symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and change interaction patterns in close relationships to improve connection and emotional safety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps and what doesnt, so therapy stays collaborative and goal-focused.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a longer conversation is needed, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options let people arrange care around work, family, and daily routines while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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