About Heather
Heather Mask is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, evidence-informed therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to help people build on their strengths. Heather draws on over 11 years of clinical experience in Wisconsin to support realistic goals and daily coping skills.
Her approach centers on a strengths-based view of each person and their surroundings. Sessions often include straightforward skill-building from cognitive behavioral ideas and tailored interventions chosen for each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Heather emphasizes clear steps people can try between sessions to manage mood, anxiety, or parenting challenges. She has worked with both youth and adults, and also provides guidance for parents who are navigating family changes and relationship strain. Heather pays attention to family of origin patterns, blended family dynamics, and the pressure caregivers face.
She also helps people cope with chronic pain, illness, or disability while addressing co-occurring mood concerns. Heather’s experience includes helping people process grief, post-traumatic stress reactions, and feelings of isolation or shame. Her work addresses impulsivity, communication problems, separation and divorce stress, and seasonal mood shifts.
She aims to make sessions practical and relatable so clients can use new skills right away. Heather holds Minnesota LICSW 26748 and Wisconsin LCSW 9988-123. She provides therapy in English and practices with sensitivity to each person’s life context and goals.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Heather often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas that focus on identifying thoughts and testing them against action. This approach teaches straightforward skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and everyday stressors. She also uses a strengths-based lens that looks at what already works for a person and builds those skills to handle parenting challenges, caregiver strain, or family transitions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and life circumstances. Together they set practical goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits daily routines and preferences.
Online therapy helps make that collaboration more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can be a quieter option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, tracking progress, or sharing thoughts between sessions. These options allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, and school schedules while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English