About Heather
Heather Friend is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with trauma, addiction, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Heather offers a calm, accepting presence and works with each person at their own pace.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens closely and helps people notice strengths they already have.
How Heather works
Sessions are paced to match what the client needs, with gentle guidance toward clearer choices and daily coping skills. Heather uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people change unhelpful patterns. She draws on acceptance and commitment techniques to clarify values and build psychological flexibility.
Cognitive behavior strategies are used to identify thinking patterns that get in the way and to develop new actions. Attachment-based ideas inform how she addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, helping people understand connection and safety needs. Dialectical behavior tools are used when stronger emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills are needed.
The overall focus is on usable skills, not jargon. She has eight years of clinical experience and holds LCSW and CSW credentials. Heather offers evening and weekend hours and responds to messages between sessions.
Sessions are 45 minutes and scheduled to fit the client’s life. International clients may be seen and sessions are conducted in English. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
Heather aims to make therapy approachable and practical for everyday life.
Heather lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Heather uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and emotions without letting them stop action, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to practice new skills that change daily functioning. CBT is often helpful for mood concerns, sleep problems, and managing anger or low self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather treats therapy as a collaborative process and will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adjusts methods over time so the plan fits the client’s needs.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video lets people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth. Messaging and live chat make it easier to check in between meetings or to have shorter touchpoints. These options give flexibility for scheduling, consistent follow-up, and ongoing skill practice with a licensed professional.
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