About Heather
Heather Wilkie uses a client-centered approach combined with practical therapies to help people facing stress, identity questions, and relationship struggles. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida. Heather aims to make therapy a straightforward process for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Her sessions are grounded in empathy and respect. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals. Heather blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Emotionally-Focused and existential ideas so clients can learn new ways of coping and relating.
How Heather works
Heather has nine years of clinical experience. That background includes work with concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, grief, and trauma. She also focuses on intimacy and relationship issues, body image, ADHD, parenting stresses, and burnout like compassion fatigue.
She offers an affirmative stance toward sexual and gender diversity and supports people exploring gender dysphoria and LGBT-related concerns. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, kink and alternative sex culture, blended family challenges, and recovery from domestic violence. In sessions Heather uses brief exercises, guided conversation, and homework when helpful.
She emphasizes skills that can be used between appointments so people see practical change. Her style is collaborative, paced to each person's needs, and aimed at helping people manage current problems while building toward long-term goals.
Heather lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Heather's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing different behaviors to change mood and reactions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding emotional patterns in close relationships and building new ways to connect and respond.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions remain practical and relevant to what the person wants to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules while keeping the focus on progress and skill building.
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