About Heather
Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, mood changes, addiction, grief, or relationship strain. Heather uses straightforward, practical conversation to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Heather brings ten years of clinical experience to her work. She draws on client-centered methods that focus on each person's goals and strengths.
Background and approach
She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. When trauma or past hurts are central, Heather may use approaches such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address painful memories and attachment wounds. She frames therapy as a team effort and helps people choose methods that match their needs.
Heather has worked across settings including elder care, community mental health, university counseling, and with LGBTQIAP+ communities and frontline workers. That background informs how she supports people dealing with complex stress, dissociative concerns, and life transitions. Outside of clinical work, Heather enjoys music, dance, and songwriting.
She also shares education about dissociative disorders through writing, presentations, and interviews to increase understanding and reduce stigma.
How Heather's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It involves active listening, reflecting concerns back, and helping people set clear goals based on their strengths. This approach helps when anxiety or life changes make decisions feel overwhelming.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive behaviors. Online DBT work often includes learning breathing, grounding, and emotion-regulation techniques and practicing them between sessions to handle stress or cravings.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used when past memories keep causing distress. In sessions focused on those memories, the therapist guides the person through a structured process to reduce the emotional charge tied to those experiences.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Heather works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts plans as progress is made so the work stays practical and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work when interaction helps, phone sessions lower bandwidth needs and can be easier to fit during a break, live chat gives quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it possible to continue therapy through moves, schedule changes, or when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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