About Heather
Heather Wilkie uses client-centered and evidence-informed approaches to help people facing stress, identity questions, relationship struggles, and life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Heather writes plainly and works to make therapy feel manageable and useful for busy lives.
She helps with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and grief. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, sleep and eating problems, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy issues, communication problems, and attachment concerns are regular topics in her practice. Her work includes attention to LGBTQ issues and gender dysphoria, and she brings an affirming, culturally aware stance to those conversations. Heather also addresses parenting stress, blended family dynamics, and challenges tied to autism and Asperger syndrome.
Kink, BDSM, and alternative sexual cultures are handled without judgment. Heather blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused ideas, existential reflection, and a client-centered way of working. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to what matters most to each person.
She aims to translate insight into clear, doable steps. With nine years of experience, Heather practices in Florida as an LMHC. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
People start by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their needs.
Therapy approaches you can use online
A Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach focuses on values and small actions. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still move toward what matters most in life. This can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and emotions and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with mood swings.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist offers empathy and support while helping clients find their own solutions, which works well for identity questions and relationship concerns.
Heather approaches choice of method as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how different approaches might fit. Together they decide which ideas and exercises to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video calls suit deeper, face-to-face work while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or movement is a concern. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English