Heather Cooper
Hopeful, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heather
Heather Cooper is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and a range of relationship and intimacy concerns. Heather works from the belief that each person knows their own story best and brings strengths to build on.
She aims to support people as they take the first steps toward change and a more fulfilling life. Heather uses straightforward, practical conversations rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She listens first and helps people identify small, doable steps. Sessions often include goal-setting, skills practice, and checking what works between meetings. Her style is collaborative and direct while staying warm and respectful.
Her work includes attention to issues affecting LGBTQ people, career and self-esteem struggles, and challenges tied to attention differences and mood conditions. Heather also addresses caregiving stress, chronic illness, and intimacy-related concerns. She brings seven years of experience into each session and adapts approaches to fit the person in front of her.
In practice she draws on tried tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-influenced methods, alongside client-centered listening. She helps clients try new ways of coping and notice what changes when they do. Heather encourages realistic, steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People choose to meet with her by scheduling online sessions. Heather guides clients through creating an achievable plan and supports them as they try it out between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s own strengths. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and helps them identify their goals and values, which is helpful for decisions and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skill-based strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, and common stressors through practice and feedback.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and clearer communication.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. Heather will work with each person to choose or combine approaches based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape realistic plans and the skills to try between sessions.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit people on the go, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins and practice of new skills. These options let people fit therapy into real life and keep steady progress even with busy schedules.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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