About Heather
Heather Scarbrough is a licensed marriage and family therapist with ten years of clinical experience in Arizona. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, ADHD, depression, and relationship concerns. Heather listens first and then helps clients build practical skills they can use day to day.
Her work often focuses on emotion and connection. She uses attachment-informed methods to look at how relationships shape behavior and self-worth.
Background and approach
That helps when people feel stuck in repeating patterns or when past hurts keep surfacing in current relationships. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to break down unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for emotional regulation, especially when intense feelings or anger get in the way of goals.
These approaches are used in clear, step-by-step ways in sessions. For trauma and abuse, Heather integrates EMDR to address painful memories alongside other therapies. Emotionally-focused techniques support work on intimacy, communication, and rebuilding trust after losses or conflict.
She adapts methods to each person’s pace and goals. Heather helps people handle parenting strain, caregiver stress, adoption and attachment issues, and challenges tied to neurodiversity such as autism and ADHD. Her goal is practical change - clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better connections with others.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances insight with skills practice. Heather guides people toward manageable steps that fit their life and values, with attention to both immediate coping and longer term growth.
Evidence-informed approaches adapted for online care
Heather uses attachment-based work to explore how early and current relationships influence behavior and self-esteem. This approach helps people understand repeating patterns in close relationships and supports work on communication and trust.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing practical exercises to change behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems because it gives clear strategies to try between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills play a role when emotional regulation is a priority. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right approach is a cooperative process. Heather will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques in-session, and adjust the plan as needed so it fits each person’s life and pace.
Online work can be very flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR work, while phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or brief coping reminders between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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