- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
About Heather
Heather Pack is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience. She combines practical counseling skills with a warm, down-to-earth manner. Heather aims to make talking about stress, anxiety, addiction, parenting concerns, and trauma feel straightforward and useful.
She currently lives and practices in West Virginia and offers sessions online by phone, video, chat, or text. Heather's background includes school counseling, mental health counseling, and substance abuse programs. She has run treatment centers and provided case management for people with serious mental health needs.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and recovery from trauma. In sessions she draws on client-centered approaches focused on listening and understanding. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior work can help when emotions feel overwhelming. Heather values resilience and practical steps. Her style often mixes conversation, skill-building, and short exercises the person can try between sessions.
She also uses hypnotherapy when clients are interested in that option. Outside of counseling she teaches dance and enjoys reading nonfiction about recovery and resilience. That mix of clinical experience and everyday curiosity shapes how she supports people facing life changes, relationship strain, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, and addictive behaviors.
What Heather works with
Everything Heather lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Heather helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a supportive collaborative relationship. It emphasizes listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions to stress, parenting pressures, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new habits, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when stress affects daily functioning.
Heather treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. Together they adjust techniques and tools as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a longer discussion is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same kinds of therapeutic work as in-person care while accommodating different schedules and comfort levels.
Questions people ask about Heather
What kinds of concerns can Heather help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, trauma, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related challenges.
What is Heather's therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, with practical skill-building. She mixes listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and dialectical behavior approaches.
How much experience does she have?
Heather has 15 years of experience across school counseling, mental health counseling, and substance abuse programs, including leadership roles in treatment settings.
Where is Heather licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in West Virginia and provides services from that location.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats does Heather offer?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Heather?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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