About Heather
Heather Kleckinger-Craven is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 19 years in mental health care. She focuses on practical steps and clear goals so people can see real changes in their daily life. Her approach is steady and straightforward, aimed at reducing anxiety and stress while improving how someone functions day to day.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skill building, short-term problem solving, and checking progress so adjustments can be made. That makes the work feel active and outcome-oriented instead of vague. Heather supports people facing a wide range of concerns including anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues.
She also addresses sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include co-morbidity, family of origin issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, personality disorders, and process addictions such as gambling or pornography. In sessions she helps clients set specific goals, practice new skills, and track what is working.
Heather encourages small, manageable steps so progress is noticeable and sustainable. She frames therapy as a collaboration where the person’s needs guide the plan. Her work is aimed at helping people manage day-to-day challenges and cope with life changes.
Heather brings practical tools and steady support to help clients make changes that affect relationships, work, and overall wellbeing.
How Heather Uses CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Heather often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that feed anxiety or depression. CBT sessions break problems into small parts and use practical exercises to build new habits and reduce symptoms over time.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to keep sessions forward-looking and efficient. That approach narrows in on what a person wants to be different, identifies strengths, and tests small changes that can be tried between sessions to see what helps.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heather will talk with clients about goals, test methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. The therapist-client relationship guides which techniques are emphasized and when to shift focus.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions are useful for more in-depth work and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers written interaction. These formats help clients fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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