About Heather
Heather Lockey is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with eight years of experience. She focuses on common problems like stress and anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. Heather also helps people facing trauma, addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, and life changes.
She works with members of the LGBTQA+ community and with teens when appropriate. Heather centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals. She treats clients as the experts on their own stories and helps them build practical skills.
Background and approach
Therapy often includes learning ways to manage overwhelming thoughts, handle strong emotions, and improve daily routines. Her approach draws from several well-known methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness practices. These methods are used to help with anxiety, coping after trauma, mood regulation, and addictive behaviors, among other concerns.
Over eight years Heather has worked in settings dealing with family conflict, grief, and complex histories such as adoption, attachment issues, and caregiving stress. She also addresses topics like body image, communication problems, codependency, and blended family challenges. Heather aims for clear, down-to-earth sessions where people learn tools they can use between meetings.
She encourages small, steady steps toward better day-to-day functioning and greater emotional balance.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and stuck patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and sleep.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will discuss your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust techniques over time to find what helps most for day-to-day functioning and long-term changes.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school commitments and to use different formats for different purposes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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