About Heather
Heather Hershey-Tompkins is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people find clearer ways to cope. She speaks plainly and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents scanning this page.
Her work centers on practical, down-to-earth conversations. She listens for strengths in each person’s story and helps them build on what already works. Sessions often include learning new ways to handle upsetting thoughts, practicing small behavioral changes, and noticing what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She draws from acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive behavioral strategies to help with worry, mood problems, and low self-esteem. Mindfulness exercises and emotionally-focused methods are used when helpful to deepen emotional understanding and improve relationships. These approaches are selected to match the client’s goals rather than to follow a single script.
Heather has supported people through grief, major life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ongoing mood concerns. She also addresses ADHD-related struggles, social anxiety, and intimacy-related issues in individual work. Her Ohio license is listed as LISW.
Clients can expect a respectful, collaborative stance. Heather helps people set practical goals, try small experiments between sessions, and track what changes. The aim is steady progress toward more satisfying daily life and clearer coping skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify personal values and take small committed steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Both approaches are practical and often involve short exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She starts with what matters most to the client and adjusts techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy schedules while keeping treatment focused on real-life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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