About Heather
Heather Abreu is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship struggles, mood changes, and life transitions. Heather aims to make the first step feel doable and respectful of where each person is right now.
Her style is person-centered and strength-based. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and works alongside them to identify what’s keeping them stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical skill building with careful listening so people leave with tools they can use between appointments. Heather has worked in a range of settings including mental health, addiction treatment, criminal justice, and independent practice. That breadth of experience informs a flexible approach for issues like trauma and addiction, and for stress related to work or parenting.
She has particular experience helping people navigate career shifts, divorce, and returning to the workforce. In sessions she balances empathy with directness. She may challenge unhelpful patterns while offering steady support.
The goal is to build skills, confidence, and clearer choices so daily life feels more manageable. Heather meets each person where they are and tailors the plan to fit their needs. Working together, she helps clients name what matters, practice new behaviors, and move toward more satisfying daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Heather uses evidence-based techniques delivered in a practical way. Person-centered work focuses on listening, validating, and helping clients set goals that matter. This is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions because it starts with the client's priorities.She also uses skill-based interventions to teach coping tools and behavior changes. These techniques help with cravings, panic, mood swings, and managing anger by giving concrete steps to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try based on goals, comfort, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or work through steps between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to keep momentum while working toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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