About Heather
Heather Lockey, LCSW, offers practical, down-to-earth therapy focused on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related concerns. She works from North Carolina and brings eight years of professional experience to each session. Heather centers the person in the room and treats clients as the experts on their own lives.
Her approach blends straightforward tools with listening and support. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take small steps toward what matters most. Heather also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing strong emotions and Mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. In practice she mixes methods to match each person’s needs and goals rather than sticking to a single toolbox.
She has worked with people facing family conflict, trauma and abuse, substance concerns, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleeping problems, and identity-related issues including LGBT matters. Heather also supports people coping with life transitions, grief, and addiction-related challenges. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative.
Heather helps clients set clear goals, learn new coping skills, and try experiments between sessions. She invites a calm, direct style that focuses on small, achievable change rather than quick fixes.
Approaches for symptoms and everyday challenges delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and encourages actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and when ADHD symptoms make it hard to follow through on goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear strategies to change patterns that cause distress; it often helps with anxiety, low mood, and sleeping problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides practical emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for intense emotions and conflict. Finding the right blend of methods happens together. Heather will discuss goals, try specific tools, and adjust the plan based on how things are going. That collaborative approach aims to match tools to your needs rather than using a single approach for everyone. Online therapy can make regular work on goals easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats let clients practice new skills, track progress, and stay connected on a schedule that fits their routine.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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