About Heather
Heather Scarboro is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with ten years of practice. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, relationship struggles, or major life changes. Heather uses plain, direct conversation to help people take the next step toward feeling steadier.
Her work emphasizes a collaborative, person-centered style. She listens first and then helps clients identify what matters most to them. Heather blends approaches to match what each person needs rather than using a single method for everyone.
How Heather works
Over a decade of work in clinical settings has shaped her practical approach. Heather uses tools drawn from client-centered therapy, dialectical behavior work, emotionally-focused strategies, existential ideas, and trauma processing. She aims to make sessions focused and doable so people can practice changes between visits.
Heather also brings experience supporting people with complex trauma and trauma-related conditions. She combines talk-based methods with structured trauma-focused techniques when appropriate. Sessions often include emotion regulation skills, processing painful memories, and building clearer communication skills.
Outside of clinical work she pursues creative outlets like music and songwriting. That background informs her interest in expressive approaches when those fit a client's goals. Heather works with people in North Carolina and with international clients by online formats.
Heather lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care online and how it helps
Heather blends client-centered therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) into her online practice. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and tailoring sessions to what the person values and needs. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving stress tolerance. EFT focuses on emotions in relationships and helps people name and shift painful interaction patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals and what feels most useful. She may combine skills training, emotion work, and trauma-focused processing across sessions until a good fit emerges.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving even when schedules change.
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