About Heather
Heather Pack is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in school counseling, mental health, and substance abuse work. She combines a practical, down-to-earth style with a focus on helping people navigate stress and anxiety. Heather works from West Virginia and brings a direct, empathetic approach to each session.
She has run addiction treatment programs and provided case management for people with serious mental illness. Those roles taught her how to match practical supports with emotional care.
Background and approach
Heather draws on that background when helping people manage depression, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and addiction concerns. Many clients come for help after trauma, major life changes, or relationship struggles. Heather uses Client-Centered methods to listen first and figure out what matters most to each person.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to build better emotional regulation. Heather brings an active, collaborative style to sessions. She may combine mindfulness practices and brief hypnotherapy when those tools fit a client's goals.
She aims to keep sessions focused on doable steps and skills that fit daily life. Outside of counseling she teaches dance and reads widely about recovery and resilience. That background feeds her interest in movement, creativity, and how people rebuild after hard experiences.
Heather offers video, phone, chat, and messaging options for online counseling.
How Heather's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience. The therapist listens closely and helps people set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches straightforward tools to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Heather will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening and support, skill-based CBT work, or DBT skills practice for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for longer sessions and visual connection. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send short updates, work on homework, or check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, or busy family routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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