About Heather
Heather Breems is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and ADHD. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make daily life easier. Heather uses a conversational, respectful style in sessions.
She listens first, then works with each person to build a plan that fits their situation. Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes, and skills you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how relationships shape feelings, and on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also brings client-centered care and mindfulness practices into the work to help people feel calmer and more present.
With 11 years of experience, Heather has supported people through grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, career concerns, sleep problems, and caregiver strain. She also addresses topics such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness, and family of origin issues. Heather aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
Conversations are focused and practical. The goal is for clients to leave sessions with concrete ideas to try between meetings. To begin, Heather asks about your current challenges and goals so together you can choose the best next steps.
She tailors the pace and techniques to each person’s needs and follows up on progress as you move forward.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice interaction styles, name long-standing patterns, and practice new ways of connecting in real time. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In virtual sessions a therapist and client identify unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and use straightforward homework to test changes between meetings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan together based on what feels most helpful. Most people try a few techniques before settling on the ones that work best for them.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day or to follow up between sessions. These formats let licensed professionals and therapists work with people across Illinois with options that match different schedules and comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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