- Years in practice
- 9
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Heather
Heather Wilkie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on practical, compassionate help. She uses clear, everyday language and a steady presence to support people facing parenting pressures, stress, anxiety, and identity questions. Her approach aims to make change feel doable instead of overwhelming.
Heather draws on almost a decade of counseling experience. She blends conversational guidance with structured tools so clients can try new ways of handling old problems.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a client’s pace and focus on immediate concerns like sleep, eating, mood, or parenting struggles. She pays attention to relationship patterns and attachment concerns, and she helps people who are exploring gender or sexual identity issues. Heather also addresses substance use, compulsive behaviors, grief, and recovery from past trauma in step-by-step work that centers the person’s goals.
Her methods include acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavior strategies, emotion-focused work, and client-centered listening. That mix supports practical coping skills alongside deeper understanding of feelings and values. Heather offers work that is straightforward and flexible.
She encourages small changes that build confidence. Parents often come away with clearer routines, calmer reactions, and more confidence in decision making. People looking to begin can expect a friendly, respectful first conversation about what matters most.
Heather aims to help people find realistic ways to feel more capable and present in daily life.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online parenting and life challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for parenting stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with mood, sleep, eating, and anxiety. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is about noticing and naming emotions, then using that awareness to improve how someone responds to relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying structured CBT tools one week and using acceptance-based or emotion-focused techniques the next, based on how things are going.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for deeper sessions that need visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone wants to process between appointments. These options allow flexible access to licensed professionals while fitting therapy into busy family routines.
Questions people ask about Heather
What concerns does Heather address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, identity-related concerns, mood disorders, addictions, trauma, grief, sleep and eating issues, and related problems listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is compassionate and collaborative, combining listening with practical techniques from approaches like ACT, CBT, and emotion-focused work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional counseling experience working with a range of concerns and populations described in her specialties.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She holds the LMHC credential and practices in Florida as a Florida LMHC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible scheduling and check-ins.
How does billing and cost work?
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 her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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