About Tracy
Tracy Herriott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience helping people face stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. She works with individuals on issues like grief, addiction, parenting strain, intimacy problems, and low self-esteem. Tracy approaches people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She uses practical methods tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions often focus on skills to manage mood, reduce worry, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Tracy blends evidence-based approaches such as cognitive and mindfulness strategies to make daily life feel more manageable. Her background includes work in community settings, hospital inpatient and outpatient programs, partial hospital care, and independent practice. That variety informs how she adapts plans for different situations.
She aims to help people move through life changes and regain a sense of control. In a typical meeting, Tracy helps clients set clear, achievable goals. She supports problem solving, offers tools for coping, and practices skills during sessions.
The focus is on what a person can do between appointments to feel better. Tracy tailors treatment to each person’s history and values. She invites collaboration and adjusts strategies as goals evolve.
Her approach is straightforward, calm, and focused on practical progress.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, life changes, and grief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is helpful for depression, mood disorders, and worry. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can support people dealing with intense emotions or interpersonal conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That process is collaborative and open to adjustment as progress is made.
Online therapy can make regular sessions easier to fit into life. Video calls let people have longer, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to talking. Together these options allow flexibility and steady access to a licensed professional while focusing on practical skills and progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English