About Heather
Heather Friend is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on anxiety, stress, and related concerns. She offers a warm, accepting presence and helps people feel understood when they are overwhelmed or stuck. Her work aims to build steady confidence and clearer emotional footing.
Therapy with her is paced to match each person's needs and comfort level. She uses a collaborative style that centers the client’s own goals. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to small, usable changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Heather helps people notice strengths and develop skills to handle worrying thoughts, intense feelings, and relationship strain. Heather brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. She draws from several evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to each person.
She offers daytime, evening, and weekend appointments to fit different schedules. Sessions last about 45 minutes, and clients can message between sessions for extra support when needed. Heather typically replies within 24 hours to those messages.
She works remotely from Colorado and provides services to international clients in English. People contact Heather for a wide range of concerns including anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, substance concerns, self-esteem problems, mood disorders, and life transitions. She also provides support around attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
The focus is on practical steps and steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values. It helps people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward a meaningful life, which can reduce the time spent battling worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Sessions may blend elements from different approaches so the plan suits what the client needs right now.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports quick updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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