About Heather
Heather Osman is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, or parenting strain. Heather meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can be used right away.
She favors a person-centered way of working, which means the conversation follows what is most important to the client. Heather also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to teach coping skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and emotionally focused tools are used when clients want to build emotional awareness and stronger relationships. Sessions are usually practical and straightforward. Heather uses listening, gentle challenge, and skill-building to help people manage symptoms and solve problems.
She can use short-term solution-focused work or longer-term therapy depending on what a person needs. Her background includes 18 years in counseling work with adults, adolescents, and children across many life challenges. That experience includes helping people with addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, eating and sleep problems, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
Heather works with people on everyday struggles as well as complex issues like attachment, abandonment, blended family dynamics, and coping with major life change. She aims to be compassionate and at times humorous, while staying direct when needed to move work forward.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building a trusting, nonjudgmental conversation so people feel understood and heard. It helps when someone needs a calm space to sort through problems and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related difficulties, sleep problems, and managing mood swings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete coping skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. These skills can help with intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and reducing risky behaviors.
Heather treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that fit their situation, and adapt the plan as work progresses. That collaborative process helps land on strategies that feel workable and realistic.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can allow short check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a routine and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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