About Heather
Heather Friend is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers a calm, accepting presence and focuses on practical steps people can use each day. Heather keeps sessions collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
She works by helping clients notice strengths and build emotional clarity. Heather aims to create a respectful space where people can speak honestly without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on short-term skills and longer-term understanding. She encourages small practice exercises between meetings so new ways of coping can stick. Her style blends listening with concrete tools.
Heather draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on acceptance-based ideas to reduce struggle with difficult feelings. She also uses attachment ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and builds skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel intense. Heather has eight years of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker.
She offers sessions on weekdays, evenings, and weekends to fit busy schedules. Live sessions are 45 minutes long and she responds to messages, usually within 24 hours. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Heather accepts international clients and works from Colorado. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their schedule. Her goal is to help people feel more grounded and capable.
Heather welcomes questions and prefers to move at a pace that feels right for each person.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
The therapist uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify personal values that guide everyday choices. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and managing distracting symptoms like those common in ADHD.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. CBT is often useful for stress, worry, mood shifts, and practical problem solving in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then shape the work together. Clients often try a mix of techniques to see what fits best.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging works for quick check-ins or shorter support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, or travel while keeping a steady, ongoing plan of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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