Heather Lockey
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heather
Heather Lockey is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, and family challenges. She draws on eight years of experience and focuses on clear, doable steps rather than jargon. Heather speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel like a collaborative conversation.
She is licensed in North Carolina as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) - NC LCSW C012291. Her approach combines several proven therapies so she can match techniques to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices and learning to sit with difficult feelings without being driven by them. Heather also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective and goals.
She offers skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when stronger emotion regulation or coping tools are needed. These approaches are useful for depression, addiction concerns, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. In sessions she focuses on problem solving for family issues, communication patterns, and parenting concerns.
She has additional experience with adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. Heather is open about working with LGBTQA+ people and with teens. Practical details: sessions are offered in English and delivered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The subscription model covers sessions and may be canceled at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
Online approaches that support families and life changes
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small steps toward what matters most. This approach can help with anxiety, coping with loss, and making values-based choices when family life is changing.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical for depression, anxiety, sleep troubles, and parenting stress because it targets specific habits and reactions.
Heather treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She listens to goals and tries techniques together to see what fits best. Over time she adapts methods so they match a person’s preferences and the issues that matter most.
Online therapy provides flexibility for busy family schedules. Video calls let people work face to face from home, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging offer shorter or more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit skill practice and problem solving into daily life, especially during transitions or caregiving demands.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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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
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