About Heather
Heather McClure Mann is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices from Texas and offers practical, steady support for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Her work is warm and direct, with a focus on building confidence and clearer decision making.
Heather’s approach mixes reflection with action. She helps people name limiting beliefs and then try small, manageable changes to test new habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills for coping with grief, addiction, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, relationship patterns, and work stress. She pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and family of origin issues shape daily life. She uses a range of well-known methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment principles, and dialectical skills.
Heather brings these ideas into plain language and adapts them to a person’s real routines. The emphasis is on what someone can do between sessions to feel steadier. People meet her for support with career decisions, compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and problems with intimacy or body image.
She also addresses communication problems, codependency, control issues, dissociation, and forgiveness work. Sessions aim to strengthen emotional regulation and reduce reactivity. Heather combines experience from inpatient and outpatient settings to offer practical tools and steady guidance.
Work is collaborative; goals are set together and reviewed as progress unfolds. She guides people toward clearer self-awareness and more confident action.
Practical approaches for online care and skill building
Heather commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with hard thoughts. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning.She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to understand how early bonds affect current relationships. That perspective can help when someone wants to change patterns around trust, intimacy, or abandonment. These approaches are described plainly and matched to each person’s needs rather than applied rigidly.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will help clients pick strategies based on goals, preferences, and life demands. Sessions may shift over time as progress is reviewed and different skills are tried.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow for brief updates and coaching between longer conversations, offering flexibility for busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English