About Heather
Heather Scarbrough is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults to address relationship strain, trauma, parenting concerns, and mood challenges. Heather brings ten years of clinical experience to each session and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
Heather’s style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and offers clear, step-by-step strategies to change them.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice, communication coaching, and problem-solving tailored to a person’s life. She commonly supports people coping with grief, compassion fatigue, anger, low self-esteem, and the ups and downs of bipolar or depressive moods. Heather also helps with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and co-occurring challenges like ADHD or autism traits.
Relationship difficulties, commitment worries, and blended family stress are frequent topics in her work. When trauma is part of the picture, Heather uses approaches aimed at reducing the hold of painful memories and emotional overwhelm. She also works with folks managing major life changes, separation, and forgiveness issues.
The goal is to restore a sense of safety and forward momentum. Heather practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English. She emphasizes small, practical steps that fit into busy lives.
New clients typically start by completing a brief questionnaire and scheduling a session to see how the work feels.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional safety. Online sessions explore patterns of connection and help people try new ways of relating to partners or close others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood when practiced between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be practiced and reviewed during remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and symptoms and then suggest a plan. That plan may combine methods, and it can change over time based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, homework support, or ongoing skill coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling family, work, and appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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