About Heather
Heather Schmit is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult life changes. She works with adults facing relationship strains, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and work-related stress. Heather focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
She uses a collaborative approach that centers the client's voice. Sessions often include goal-setting, problem-solving, and building clearer communication skills.
How Heather works
Heather also integrates techniques to improve sleep, reduce rumination, and rebuild self-esteem over time. Her work draws from several evidence-informed methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and change patterns in close relationships. When trauma is involved, Heather may use EMDR to address persistent distress tied to past events. Mindfulness practices and client-centered methods are woven into sessions to increase present-moment awareness and support each person’s goals.
Heather pays attention to attachment, codependency, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue when these themes come up in therapy. With six years of clinical experience as an LPC, she aims to make therapy practical and understandable. People can expect clear explanations, collaborative planning, and concrete tools to try between meetings.
Heather conducts sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility.
Heather lists 10 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to shift thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and workplace stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on patterns in close relationships and helps people practice clearer emotional expression and repair.Heather views finding the right approach as a team effort. She discusses goals and preferences during the first sessions and adjusts methods as needed. That collaborative stance helps shape a plan that fits both the presenting concern and how the person prefers to work.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and daily life while using the methods described above.
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