About Heather
Heather Lopez is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience. She practices from New York and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and eating concerns. Heather aims for straightforward, practical work in sessions so clients can start making small changes quickly.
She favors short, clear strategies that address thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new responses.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps with intense emotions and teaches skills for distress tolerance and better emotion regulation. Heather balances change-focused work with acceptance. She listens without judgment and helps people set goals that matter to them.
Sessions tend to combine skill teaching with real-life practice between meetings. Her approach often includes step-by-step tools for calming panic, reducing worry, and improving sleep and eating patterns. She also helps people improve communication and work through family-related stress.
The aim is to make coping feel doable, not overwhelming. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where progress is tracked and plans are adjusted as needed. Heather supports people who want concrete tactics alongside chances to talk through feelings.
Her style is warm, direct, and solution-oriented.
How CBT and DBT translate to online care
Heather uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that worsen anxiety and to try new behaviors that reduce distress. CBT sessions online focus on homework, thought records, and concrete steps to change habits and reactions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing strong emotions, building distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT work often includes learning short skills that can be practiced between sessions and reviewed during video or text contacts.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and daily life, and then suggest ways of working that fit those needs. Together they adjust methods as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats make scheduling more flexible and allow for different ways to engage. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and skills coaching, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, New York
- Languages
- English
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