About Heather
Heather Hershey-Tompkins is an Ohio licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plain language and aims to make the first step toward change feel doable.
Her work centers on recognizing each person's strengths. She treats clients as experts in their own lives and helps them build on what already works. Sessions usually focus on practical steps people can try between meetings to notice progress.
How Heather works
Heather uses several therapy styles to meet different needs. She draws on tools from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive approaches, mindfulness, emotionally focused methods, and client-centered listening. These approaches are used to address mood concerns, relationship or intimacy-related struggles, ADHD-related challenges, and career stress.
She has experience supporting people through major life changes, compassion fatigue, and bipolar mood concerns. Communication problems, isolation, and questions about life purpose are also common topics she helps people talk through. Her aim is to create a calm, focused space for problem solving.
Therapy with Heather typically combines symptom-focused strategies and values-based goals. Over time clients learn ways to handle difficult feelings, improve communication, and build greater self-love. The emphasis is on small, realistic shifts that add up to meaningful change.
Heather lists 5 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions even when emotions are difficult. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting attention toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain stress or low mood, then teaches concrete skills to change those patterns and reduce symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can ease rumination and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps and what feels doable for the client.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging formats support brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep consistent momentum between meetings.
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