Heather Scarboro, LCMHC

Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, and midlife transitions. Heather works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, self-esteem, and career strain. She also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Heather uses straightforward, collaborative sessions. She listens, helps untangle patterns, and supports clients in making concrete changes. Her approach blends client-centered work with emotion-focused and skills-based strategies to meet daily needs.

With ten years of experience, Heather has worked in elder care, community mental health, and university settings. She has a long history of supporting LGBTQIAP+ and plural communities and frontline workers. Personal experience with dissociation shapes her perspective and informs her focus on trauma-related concerns.

Therapy often includes paced talks about painful memories, exercises to manage strong emotions, and practical tools for stress and relationship problems. Heather may draw on body-based and creative methods when helpful, including movement, music, or expressive exercises. She frames treatment as a team effort and helps clients set clear, achievable goals.

Heather accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. For people navigating big life changes or a midlife reassessment, she aims to provide steady, practical support and coping strategies that fit everyday life.

Approaches that translate to online care

Client-centered therapy places the client's priorities first and focuses on empathetic listening and support. Online, this means sessions center on what matters most to the person and build goals together.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those skills work well in remote sessions through guided practice, role plays, and homework between meetings.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and make sense of core emotions in relationships and within themselves. Doing this work online can still allow for deep emotional processing and tracking patterns over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Heather will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in and adjusts the plan as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier, help fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and support follow-up between meetings. These practical benefits often help people maintain steady progress while juggling daily responsibilities.