About Heather
Heather Baker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, and ADHD. She also supports people facing grief, bipolar symptoms, anger, self-esteem struggles, and challenges tied to chronic pain or illness. She uses a blend of practical approaches to meet each person's needs.
Sessions focus on clear goals, skill practice, and understanding what keeps a problem going.
How Heather works
Heather aims to be warm, direct, and respectful while guiding people through change. Her background includes six years of counseling experience and a master's degree in mental health counseling. That experience includes work with trauma, communication problems, and health-related stress.
Heather draws on several methods to match the work to the individual. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try new coping skills, and build day-to-day strategies. She values the client's perspective and treats people as the expert on their own life while offering tools and structure.
Expect a mix of talking, practical exercises, and skills coaching. Heather also attends to issues like codependency, impulsivity, dissociation, commitment and control problems, and feelings of isolation. She welcomes diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds and adapts her approach so it fits each person's values and goals.
Heather lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Heather works with
The areas below are the ones Heather selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How Heather’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs guidance while keeping their goals central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change them, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will discuss goals and preferences to decide which methods to use. She adjusts the plan over time based on what is helpful and what the client prefers.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules and allow brief, focused exchanges between longer sessions. These options aim to make starting and keeping up with therapy more flexible and manageable.
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