About Heather
Heather Shaver is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, trauma, and struggles with relationships and addictive behaviors. Heather aims to create a calm, direct space where people feel heard and understood.
She begins by meeting clients where they are and building a working rapport. Trust and connection guide her approach. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings to manage symptoms and make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Heather has worked in a variety of clinical settings including victim advocacy, residential substance abuse care, hospice and home health, and independent practice. She has experience supporting people through crisis, end-of-life concerns, and long-term health issues. Her work draws on several approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused work.
Heather explains tools in plain language and helps clients try small experiments to see what helps. She typically supports clients who want concrete strategies for managing anxiety, improving sleep and eating patterns, addressing codependency or commitment issues, or coping with life changes. Heather believes therapy is a team effort and shapes each plan to match a person’s goals and pace.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Heather uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT often includes simple exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting. Mindfulness therapy is used to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to stress; this typically involves short, practical mindfulness practices and attention exercises to help with sleep, eating, and anxiety management.She also uses motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck or uncertain. This method focuses on exploring personal values and increasing motivation through respectful conversation rather than pressure. Heather works with clients to pick the approaches that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts methods as progress unfolds so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, brief live chat or messaging are useful for quick check-ins or coaching-style support. These options help people keep continuity in care while fitting therapy into daily life.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Heather commonly address?
What is her general therapy style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages and international options are available?
What formats are used for sessions?
How is cost handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with Heather?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.