Heather Scarboro, LCMHC

Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and life transitions. They bring ten years of counseling experience and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Heather works with a range of concerns including grief, relationship strain, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric issues.

Heather uses straightforward, collaborative work in sessions. They draw on client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities. Emotion-focused techniques help with relationship and intimacy struggles, while trauma-focused tools support recovery from abuse and dissociation.

Heather also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation and EMDR for people who want a trauma-processing option. Sessions can include mindfulness, expressive arts, or clinical hypnosis when those tools fit a client’s goals. The approach emphasizes teamwork between therapist and client to set clear goals and practical steps.

Heather has experience across elder care settings, community mental health, university counseling, and LGBTQIAP+ care. That background informs work with caregivers, chronic illness, and people navigating complicated medical or identity concerns. They also advocate publicly for better understanding of dissociative disorders.

Outside clinical work Heather enjoys dance, music, and songwriting. Those interests sometimes shape how creative tools are used in sessions, always tailored to what the person wants to try.

How Heather's Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy puts the person's needs first. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping set goals and practical steps to reach them. This approach helps with stress, relationship concerns, and life changes.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on building skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. It can be useful for intense emotions, anger, and relationship patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people express needs and rebuild connection, which supports intimacy and caregiving stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative process guides whether to emphasize DBT skills, emotion-focused work, trauma processing, or a mix of methods.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or sessions when travel would be difficult. Because session formats are not listed here, confirm the current options before booking. Heather and other licensed professionals can adapt techniques like mindfulness, skills training, or expressive exercises to an online setting so therapy fits daily routines and goals.