About Heather
Heather Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with 26 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship struggles, or ADHD. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where concerns can be talked through in plain terms.
Heather approaches therapy in a direct and practical way. She works with each person to build a plan that fits their life and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings as well as understanding the patterns that keep problems going. Her work draws on several evidence-based methods. Heather uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people make choices that match their values. Attachment-informed work helps when relationship patterns and past hurt affect current life. Heather has supported people through parenting stress, career transitions, chronic health concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She also brings experience addressing adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. Her approach adapts to the problem at hand rather than fitting everyone into one method. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative step.
Heather listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals. She emphasizes small, steady steps that add up to real change over time.
Approach choices and online therapy options
Heather commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical alternatives. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and problems with motivation or focus.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps even when feelings are difficult. ACT is often helpful for people managing long-term stress, chronic health issues, or ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then select or combine methods that match what they want to accomplish. The process is collaborative and adjusted as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing skill coaching easier between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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