About Heather
Heather Knox is a licensed clinician with an MD and an LCSW-C and 25 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. Her work centers on clear, practical support for everyday struggles.
She helps people who feel stuck after big life changes. That includes new parents facing postpartum depression, caregivers dealing with burnout, and people coping with isolation or loss of purpose.
Background and approach
She also provides care for survivors of sexual assault and those living with post-traumatic stress. In sessions she keeps language simple and concrete. Conversations aim to identify patterns that make difficulties worse.
Then she and the person try small, doable steps to change those patterns and improve daily functioning. Heather draws on a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match each person's needs. She focuses on building coping skills, strengthening self-compassion, and improving relationship patterns that contribute to ongoing distress.
Progress moves at the client's pace and is reviewed regularly. Based in Maryland, she combines long clinical experience with a practical, warm approach. Many people come for help with anxiety, mood concerns, or to find direction after a major life shift.
Heather aims to create a straightforward path toward feeling more able to handle day-to-day life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Heather uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety and related mood concerns. Cognitive-behavioral strategies help identify unhelpful thought patterns and teach practical tools to reduce worry and reactivity. These techniques focus on changing specific thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety.Exposure-based elements can be used when people need help facing avoided situations or memories in a gradual way. This approach breaks down what feels overwhelming into manageable steps so fear decreases over time. She also emphasizes building self-compassion and coping skills to improve daily functioning and self-care.
Choosing the right approach happens together. Heather discusses goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapts methods over time. The plan is collaborative and reviewed regularly to make sure it matches each person's needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow for deeper, face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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