Heather Wilkie, LMHC

Heather Wilkie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She draws on almost a decade of counseling experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, identity questions, or relationship and intimacy concerns. Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring each session to a person’s needs.

Heather uses practical, talk-and-action therapy. Sessions focus on thoughts, everyday habits, and clear steps people can try between visits. She blends approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and make values-based changes.

She also brings Emotionally-Focused and Client-Centered ways of working into sessions. That means attention to feelings and to building a trusting working relationship. People often come for help with grief, trauma, addiction, sleep or eating concerns, and career or parenting stress.

Heather has experience supporting LGBT identities and gender dysphoria, and she works with a wide range of other concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, codependency, and body image. She pays attention to attachment patterns, blended family dynamics, and sexual diversity including kink and BDSM when those issues are relevant.

Her style is compassionate and collaborative. Heather helps people set small, doable goals and practices that fit daily life. To start, she will talk through what matters most and plan the next step together.

How her therapeutic approaches fit online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, identity questions, and problems where getting unstuck matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thinking and behavior patterns and testing small changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines. It often helps with sleep, eating concerns, anxiety, and mood symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to core feelings and how they shape relationships and intimacy, which can help with attachment and relational struggles.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. Heather will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then recommend which approach or combination to try. The decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.

Confirm the session formats before booking, since current options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday break, or remove the need to be on camera when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and EFT techniques to an online setting so people can practice skills and track small changes between sessions.