About Heather
Heather Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with issues like trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people coping with chronic illness or pain and those navigating life changes and ADHD.
Heather uses straightforward, skill-focused work in sessions. She listens closely and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Then she offers tools and practices to try between meetings. Sessions are conversational and practical rather than academic. Her methods include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior skills for emotional regulation.
She also uses client-centered practices to keep the work personal and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. Mindfulness strategies are woven into sessions to help people notice and respond differently to stress. With six years of professional experience, Heather draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She aims to make goals clear and measurable, and to teach skills people can use day to day. Her manner is warm and direct, with honest feedback offered in a compassionate way. Heather is open to cultural and spiritual differences and takes a nonjudgmental stance.
She focuses on building practical coping skills, improving communication, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Approaches that guide Heather's online work
Heather often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or depression. CBT sessions typically include setting goals, trying new behaviors, and practicing skills between meetings.She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques teach things like distress tolerance and emotion regulation to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.
Client-centered therapy is another core approach she uses; it centers on listening, reflecting, and tailoring the work to each person’s priorities. That approach helps people feel heard and helps guide which tools will be most useful for their situation.
Heather treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust based on what works and what feels right for the client. Goals and methods are decided jointly so the plan fits each person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions suit in-depth work and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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