About Heather
Heather Wilkie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She centers sessions on what matters to each person and offers straightforward support for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, and ADHD. Heather keeps language simple and works in a calm, respectful way so people can talk honestly about what’s hard for them.
She uses a mix of approaches to match the problem at hand.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps break down overwhelming thoughts and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports clearer values and committed steps forward. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used when relationship or intimacy issues are central.
Heather draws on nine years of clinical experience. That background includes helping people cope with grief, trauma, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and substance-related struggles. She also addresses life changes such as divorce, parenting strain, and career transitions.
Her practice attends to identity-related concerns and LGBT issues, and she offers informed, respectful care without assuming a single path for everyone. Additional focus areas include attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image and eating concerns, codependency, and kink-aware work when relevant. Sessions can be structured or conversational depending on the person’s goals.
Heather helps people set realistic steps, practice skills between sessions, and check progress over time. The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive, with an emphasis on usable tools and clearer next steps.
How Heather’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and focus on small, values-based actions. Online sessions use ACT to set clear, doable goals and practice exercises between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to test unhelpful patterns; it works well online for skill-building, thought records, and behavior experiments. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on how emotions show up in relationships and helps people name and shift interaction patterns that cause pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit each person’s needs and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed or adjusted as progress and circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging allow quick reflections and ongoing coaching-style support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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