About Heather
Heather Dominguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of clinical experience. She practices from Alaska and speaks English and Spanish. Heather works with people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, depression, and life changes.
She uses practical therapies to help people face painful memories, manage overwhelming feelings, and rebuild daily routines. Sessions often focus on skills people can use right away - breathing and mindfulness, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and choosing actions that match personal values.
Background and approach
Heather has a long history of work in community and crisis settings. Her background includes parenting-focused counseling and itinerant work in the Northwest Arctic where she provided crisis support to first responders and families after sudden losses. That experience shaped a steady, calm approach to high-stress situations.
Her training includes a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - in Alaska and is comfortable working with trauma and grief using EMDR when appropriate. In appointments Heather aims to build a practical plan.
She helps people identify small daily steps, strengthen coping skills, and clarify what matters most. Many sessions blend talk, exercises, and mindfulness practices to make progress between meetings. Heather accepts international clients and offers several remote formats.
People who want straightforward, experience-based support for anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or major life transitions may find her approach grounded and actionable.
Approaches Heather Uses in Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and major life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and coping skills development.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach Heather uses for processing trauma and intense memories through guided techniques that can reduce the emotional charge of past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals and comfort level. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on progress and preference.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or a different way to communicate when typing feels easier. These formats offer flexibility so people can keep momentum while managing schedules and daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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