About Heather
Heather Burgess is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She has worked in clinical and residential settings since 2018 and brings five years of counseling experience to her work. Heather aims to help people make concrete changes by setting clear goals and working step by step toward them.
Her style is practical and collaborative. She offers nonjudgmental support while encouraging action. Sessions may include skills practice, reflective work, and problem-solving to address daily stressors and emotional struggles.
Background and approach
Heather has helped people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, self-esteem issues, and ADHD. She has experience supporting people through blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and substance use concerns.
Her clinical approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with trauma-informed care and elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She adapts methods to fit each person’s needs and prefers a goal-focused, action-oriented pace. Heather’s background includes work on an ACTT team, a men’s residential substance use program, crisis hospital advocacy, and offering educational courses on sex trafficking.
She also has experience providing in-home therapy that coordinates with schools, legal systems, and social services to support clients at risk of out-of-home placement.
How Heather's Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing thought and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.Heather aims to find the right mix of approaches with each person. She collaborates with clients to set clear goals and tests methods for a few sessions, then adjusts the plan based on what feels most helpful. That process helps identify whether ACT, CBT, or other tools fit best for the issues at hand.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, homework discussion, or quick coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility so work, school, or caregiving responsibilities are easier to manage while getting ongoing support from a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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