About Heather
Heather Chavis is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with nine years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck. She also supports those managing parenting challenges, career worries, low self-esteem, and concerns related to ADHD.
Heather aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and supported. Heather keeps sessions direct and down-to-earth. She creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps people can take between sessions. She emphasizes skills that fit into busy lives. Her work blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches.
That means she listens first, then helps identify unhelpful thinking and tests small behavior changes. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people stay present and manage stress in the moment. Heather also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to boost motivation and set clear, achievable goals.
Together with clients she breaks bigger problems into small, testable steps. This approach helps people feel forward momentum sooner. Sessions aim to address immediate concerns while building long-term skills.
Heather explains suggestions plainly and checks in about what is most useful. She encourages steady progress rather than perfection.
Approaches that fit your schedule
Heather blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and then try small changes that can ease stress and anxiety. Client-centered work means she listens carefully and follows the client's lead to find what matters most in their life.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness can be helpful for managing stress, staying calm during strong emotions, and supporting focus for people coping with ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Heather works collaboratively to match methods to your goals and preferences, adjusting plans as you learn what helps. She aims to pair clear steps with the support people need to stay motivated.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to work on skills without rearranging an entire day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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