Heather Lykas

Heather Lykas is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She offers a calm, down-to-earth style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Heather aims to help people handle stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and problems that come after trauma or abuse.

She uses a strengths-based approach that starts where a person already is. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and goals. Heather often draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to help notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Motivational interviewing is part of her way of working when someone is trying to make a change but feels stuck. For people impacted by trauma, she uses trauma-focused methods to address painful memories and reactions. She adapts these methods to be practical and understandable.

Heather has spent years helping people with relationship stress, parenting challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and coping with major life changes. Her aim is to build on what is already working and add new tools for managing strong emotions like anger.

Her approach is collaborative and direct. She listens first, then helps set clear, realistic steps to move forward. People who want a straightforward, empathetic therapist who focuses on skills and real-life solutions may find her approach a good match.

How Heather’s approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead. The therapist focuses on understanding each person and building on their strengths to help with issues like anxiety, anger, or relationship stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors together. Heather uses CBT to help people spot patterns that keep them stuck and to practice different ways of responding to stress and strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heather will talk with a person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the available session options before booking because formats were not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins, or avoid travel time. It also allows for working on skills between sessions so people can practice in their daily routines and bring concrete examples back to the therapist.