About Heather
Heather Cooper is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor with seven years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and LGBT concerns. Her style is straightforward and supportive.
She aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths. Heather sees clients as the experts on their own lives. She offers guidance and tools while leaving room for each person’s values and goals.
How Heather works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth rather than full of jargon. Her approach pulls from several methods to match the issue at hand. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the client’s needs and experience. Heather also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when they fit a person’s concerns, especially around meaning, identity, and life transitions.
She works with a wide range of issues including grief, intimacy concerns, anger, self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Sessions can include practical exercises, skills training, and reflective conversation. Heather emphasizes steady progress and realistic steps.
She supports people who want clearer boundaries, better emotion regulation, or help navigating major life shifts.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches That Fit Your Life, Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and respect for your perspective. The therapist follows your lead, helps you identify what matters, and supports choices that match your values. This approach can be useful when someone needs a calm space to sort through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. It uses clear steps and exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can be effective for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving communication when feelings run high.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heather will talk with you about your goals, try methods that suit your situation, and adjust as needed. The plan often blends approaches so you get practical tools and thoughtful exploration together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you have a full conversational session. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping treatment focused on your needs.
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