Heather Scarboro

Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage anger, stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Heather works with people who face life transitions, career pressures, ADHD, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and other complex stressors.

Heather brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions. She uses straightforward, team-based collaboration with each person to set goals and try different ways of coping. Her background includes working in elder care, community mental health, and university settings, as well as with frontline workers and LGBTQIAP+ communities.

Her approach draws from client-centered work, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), emotionally-focused therapy (EFT), existential ideas, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Heather combines talk-based strategies with mindfulness, expressive arts, and clinical hypnosis techniques to match what a person needs in the moment.

Heather also speaks from lived experience with dissociative disorders and has advocated for accurate public information about those diagnoses. Outside of clinical work she engages in music, songwriting, and dance, and shares education through blogs, podcasts, and presentations.

People who want practical tools, calm feedback, and an empathic guide for intense emotions will find Heather’s style down-to-earth. Before scheduling, confirm current session options to make sure they fit your needs.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. It means the therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them find their own answers and build coping skills.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for handling strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It is often used when anger, impulsivity, or emotion regulation are central concerns.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, EMDR, supports people working through traumatic memories by combining focused attention with guided sets of stimulation. It can help reduce the intensity of troubling memories and the distress they cause.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying DBT skills for emotion regulation, doing client-centered conversations for problem-solving, or using EMDR when trauma work is appropriate.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, like fitting meetings around work or childcare. It can allow for shorter check-ins when needed, or longer sessions when deeper processing is helpful. Because the biography does not specify session formats, confirm current online options before scheduling to ensure they match your routine and preferences.