About Heather
Heather Goodman-D'Anna is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and navigate relationship and parenting challenges. Heather aims to make the first step feel easier by offering calm, straightforward support.
Heather uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s goals in view. She listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
That often leads to practical next steps people can try between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work when thoughts and behaviors get in the way. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding.
Mindfulness practices are also woven into sessions to reduce reactivity and build focus. Heather has supported people through grief, mood and stress-related concerns, addiction, trauma, and issues around intimacy and identity. She also addresses attachment patterns, family-of-origin problems, and communication struggles.
Her background includes work with LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria topics. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed. Heather brings both direct tools and curiosity to each appointment.
For someone feeling overwhelmed, she aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant from day one.
How Heather’s Methods Work Online
Heather often uses client-centered therapy to start sessions, which means she focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities before suggesting steps. That approach helps clarify goals and makes sessions feel collaborative and respectful.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often includes homework or short experiments to try between sessions, which translates well to video or text-based formats.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will discuss options and try methods that match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. She encourages feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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