About Heather
Heather Lockey is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with eight years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma. She works with individuals who are struggling with relationship questions, sleep problems, parenting strain, and life transitions. Heather is also open to working with teens and members of the LGBTQA+ community.
Heather blends practical methods to meet each person's needs. She aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on real problems.
Background and approach
Common tools include skills to manage strong emotions, strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts, and steps to move toward valued goals. Her background includes supporting people through family and attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, domestic violence, and substance-related difficulties. She also helps with body image, codependency, blended family stress, and caregiver burden.
Heather uses techniques suited to trauma and long-term challenges when needed. In sessions she invites people to use their own strengths. She helps clients notice what matters most and try small changes that fit daily life.
The work can include short skills practice, problem-solving, and planning for next steps. Heather holds the LCSW credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She provides services in English and practices from North Carolina.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on practical ways to reduce distress and increase functioning.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward them while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep troubles. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace to build confidence and find solutions that fit their life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Heather works collaboratively to decide which methods match a person's goals and preferences. Together they try approaches, track progress, and adjust methods so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in session. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or an option when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, tracking homework, or getting support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using approaches that focus on skills and real-life change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English