About Heather
Heather Dominguez helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or worn out by caregiving and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 26 years of clinical experience. Heather speaks English and Spanish and provides care from her base in Alaska.
She uses practical, down-to-earth methods that focus on what people want to change. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Heather draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build everyday skills for coping and decision making.
How Heather works
Heather's background includes work across different regions of the United States and extended time living and practicing in Alaska. Her work has included vocational counseling, crisis intervention, addiction-related concerns, trauma, grief, and spiritual matters when clients bring those up. She has experience supporting people through major life transitions and with long-term stressors such as caregiving and chronic illness.
Trauma-focused methods, including EMDR, are part of Heather's toolkit for people who have experienced abuse or other traumatic events. She also offers coaching-style support for career questions and coping strategies. Sessions tend to balance practical skill building with space to talk about feelings and values.
Heather aims to meet clients where they are and help them take small, manageable steps. She emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person's background and beliefs. People can expect straightforward feedback, practical exercises, and encouragement to try new behaviors between sessions.
Heather lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alaska |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Heather’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values. Online ACT sessions often focus on small experiments to try between meetings and on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual CBT, Heather helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practices new behaviors through homework and role play that can be discussed on video or by message.
EMDR is used for trauma work and involves structured processing of distressing memories. In online EMDR-informed sessions, Heather guides gentle, paced exercises and checks in about how the work is going so adjustments can be made.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She combines short-term skills with longer-term exploration when that fits the client's priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers typing. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or remote schedules while using the therapist's chosen approaches.
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