About Tracy
Tracy Herriott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience in North Carolina. She helps people who are living with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship problems. Tracy emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a practical focus on goals when people first reach out.
Clients meet a clinician who listens and then builds a plan that fits their life. Sessions include clear steps to manage symptoms and practice new skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Tracy draws on methods that teach coping tools and ways to handle upsetting thoughts and feelings. Her background spans community settings, acute in-patient care, outpatient clinics, partial hospital programs, and independent practice. That range means she has worked with people at many stages of recovery and life change.
She uses lessons from those settings to shape focused, realistic sessions. Tracy commonly combines evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address worry, mood shifts, and relationship stress. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and skills from dialectical behavior work when emotion regulation is needed.
Motivational interviewing supports people facing addiction or major life changes. People who meet with Tracy can expect a collaborative pace. She checks in about what helps and adjusts plans as needed.
Her aim is to help clients move toward clear, practical goals and improved everyday functioning.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then move toward actions that matter. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where values-based choices matter.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and low mood. It often includes homework tasks like tracking thoughts or trying new behaviors between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress. Those skills can help with relationship conflict, anger, and emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tracy will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences and will try methods that fit the person's needs. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts techniques based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill practice, or shorter touchpoints between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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