About Heather
Heather Hershey-Tompkins is an Ohio-licensed social worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related concerns. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She listens for strengths and patterns that affect day-to-day coping. Sessions emphasize practical steps to improve motivation, confidence, and self-esteem. Heather helps people work through life changes and the emotional fallout of loss or major transitions.
Background and approach
Her style draws on evidence-informed approaches to help people handle mood shifts and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue and career uncertainty. Communication problems and feelings of isolation are common topics she addresses.
Heather uses mindful awareness and values-based strategies to help people notice what matters and take small, workable actions. Cognitive strategies are used to spot unhelpful thinking and build more effective habits. Emotion-focused techniques help people name and make sense of strong feelings.
Her goal in the room is steady, practical progress. She offers support while encouraging skills people can use outside sessions. The process is paced to each person’s needs so change feels manageable and relevant.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with what matters most. It helps people move forward even when difficult thoughts or feelings remain present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical skills to change behaviors and mood. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help you identify which methods fit your goals and daily life, and adjust techniques as needs change. You and the therapist decide together what to try and how fast to move, so the work feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or hands-free work is needed, and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing processing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping progress steady and practical.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
What is the therapeutic approach and style?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and located?
Which languages and international options are offered?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled?
How do I begin the process?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.