About Heather
Heather Kangur is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people navigate hard life moments. She practices in New York and supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, ADHD, and parenting challenges. Heather draws on a long career that began working with adults and children with intellectual and physical disabilities.
She has worked in individual therapy, group settings, and behavioral case management. That experience includes supporting people after abuse, those facing caregiving strain, and people dealing with relationship and family conflict.
Background and approach
Heather also offers help around adoption and foster care topics, blended family issues, and divorce or separation concerns. Heather uses several practical approaches in sessions. She centers conversations on the person in front of her and helps people identify small, doable steps.
She also uses techniques that address unhelpful thinking and build emotional connection in relationships. Mindfulness skills and conversations about meaning or life purpose are part of her work when relevant. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools you can use between meetings.
Heather pays attention to communication patterns, control and codependency issues, hoarding, impulsivity, and isolation. She also brings experience supporting people with intellectual disability and their unique needs. Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She checks messages daily and aims to make therapy fit into busy schedules. If you want straightforward, steady support for practical change, she can help you plan next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Heather commonly blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Client-centered work means sessions focus on your experience and priorities, with the therapist listening and reflecting so you can find your own path. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to ease anxiety, depression, or stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people express feelings and build stronger emotional bonds.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She will work together with you to choose methods that match your goals, preferences, and the problems you want to solve. That collaborative planning can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy can make regular work on concerns easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and fuller emotional connection. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text sessions are useful for quick check-ins, mood tracking, or shorter exchanges between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and ways of communicating while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English