About Heather
Heather Kelly is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 25 years of experience practicing in Ohio. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Heather aims to create a calm, straightforward space for people to talk about what feels overwhelming and what they want to change.
She uses a practical approach that helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear steps to practice between meetings. Heather often supports people working through life transitions like divorce, blended family challenges, workplace stress, or recovery after sexual assault and abuse. Heather pays attention to communication patterns and to how people relate to themselves.
She helps clients build self-love, repair communication, and set realistic personal goals. For mood concerns she addresses things like Seasonal Affective Disorder and other mood disorders alongside everyday low mood. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental while remaining focused on measurable steps forward.
Heather blends listening with practical exercises so people leave with tools to use in real life. The work is paced to fit each person’s needs and energy. Clients who want help with relationship problems, forgiveness, infidelity, or finding life purpose often find the mix of direct coaching and reflective discussion useful.
Heather also helps with workplace issues and the emotional fallout of family problems. Sessions aim to restore agency and reduce the everyday strain of anxiety and stress.
CBT and Practical Support for Online Care
Heather uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small, manageable pieces and gives clear exercises to practice between sessions, which can help with anxiety, mood changes, and stress.Her work also emphasizes improving communication and building self-compassion. That means sessions often include role-play for conversations, simple homework to try new responses, and steps to rebuild trust with yourself after difficult events. These approaches target relationship strain, self-esteem, and recovery after trauma in a direct, stepwise way.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heather will talk with each person about goals and daily life, then suggest which methods to try first. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps and what feels realistic for the person’s schedule and energy.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility for busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work days, parenting schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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