About Heather
Heather Chavis is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, career difficulties, low self-esteem, and motivation problems. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.
Heather creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings. She listens closely and works with each person to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, not just talk during them. Her work draws on client-centered principles that keep the person’s concerns in the lead. Heather also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that change behavior.
Mindfulness techniques are included when they fit, to help with staying present and managing intense emotions. With nine years of professional experience, Heather has supported people through life changes, panic and social anxiety, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to ADHD and autism spectrum traits. She pays attention to communication patterns and practical life issues like finances and workplace stress.
Heather practices in North Carolina as an LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker. She offers a straightforward, collaborative style that focuses on what clients want to change and how to get there.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship. It helps people feel heard and guides goals based on what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses simple exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices to notice thoughts and reduce reactivity, which can help with anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Heather will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which mix of approaches feels most useful and adjust over time based on what is working.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share short updates, ask questions between sessions, or have a brief coaching-style exchange. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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