About Heather
Heather Showen is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical strategies for anxiety and stress. She brings seven years of experience as a West Virginia practitioner and centers sessions on what matters to each person. Heather emphasizes client strengths and encourages small steps toward a more manageable life.
She uses clear, goal-focused conversations to help people facing anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems going and test different ways to respond.
Background and approach
She also addresses panic attacks, mood challenges, and life changes like separation or caregiving stress. Heather often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She blends that with acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and build actions that match what matters most.
For people with overwhelming memories, she may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to reduce distress related to past events. Her style is client-centered, which means she follows each person's pace and priorities. People can expect straightforward feedback, practical tools, and a focus on skills they can use between sessions.
Heather pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those issues come up. In work with addictions, chronic pain, or caregiving strain, Heather combines emotion regulation skills and problem-solving. She helps people sort through guilt, shame, or impulsivity and find clearer steps forward.
Her goal is to support sustainable changes that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what they value and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or avoidance.Heather uses a mix of these approaches alongside client-centered work to match each person's needs. She will collaborate with the client to figure out which approach or combination feels right, adjusting the plan as goals and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat are useful for brief check-ins or building skills between meetings. This range makes it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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