Heather Cooper

Heather Cooper is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or challenges tied to identity and relationships. Heather believes people know their own story and brings a respectful, down-to-earth approach to sessions.

She listens for strengths and builds on what already works in daily life. Sessions are a place to name what feels hard and to try practical steps that can ease symptoms and improve coping. Heather uses straightforward tools to help with worry, low mood, anger, and grief.

Her work draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when past hurt affects current functioning. She also uses Client-Centered methods to keep the conversation focused on the client’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques appear when teaching new skills for emotion regulation and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.

Heather supports people navigating relationship strain, intimacy concerns, identity questions, career stress, and major life transitions. She also addresses issues such as ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. Work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

If someone is looking for a practical, empathetic counselor who values the client’s knowledge of their life, Heather offers a steady, strengths-focused approach. To begin, a simple intake helps match goals to the strategies that make the most sense for each person.

How Heather’s approaches translate to online work

Heather uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address how past harm affects day-to-day functioning; this approach looks at patterns that link past events to current reactions and helps people build safer ways of coping. Client-Centered Therapy is another part of her practice, which means the conversation is guided by the client’s priorities and Heather reflects understanding while supporting their choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to teach concrete tools for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Choosing an approach is often collaborative. Heather will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest approaches to try. Together they adjust methods over time to fit what actually helps in daily life.

The therapist biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also allow work on skills like emotion regulation and thought restructuring in the context of everyday routines, helping therapy carry over into real life.