Heather Scarboro, LCMHC
North Carolina · 10 years in practice
Heather Scarboro is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
License and registration
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 10893 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1255734851 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Heather
Heather Scarboro is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She offers straightforward support for mood challenges, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and career or life-change stressors. Heather speaks English and works with people in North Carolina as well as international clients through online formats.
Heather draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name feelings and improve emotional connection in their lives.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals and values. When emotions feel overwhelming, she blends Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for grounding and emotion regulation. Over a decade of clinical practice informs her approach.
Heather uses practical exercises, reflective conversation, and skills coaching so people can try new ways of coping between sessions. She includes trauma-informed tools when processing difficult memories or abuse histories. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Heather explains options and helps clients pick the format that works best for them. Outside of clinical work she has long experience advocating for and educating about dissociative disorders. That background shapes how she listens to people with complex trauma histories and long-term recovery needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Heather lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name their emotions, then use those feelings to guide new ways of relating and coping. It can be useful for improving emotional awareness and working through relationship and intimacy-related patterns.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s own goals at the center. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows each person’s pace so conversations feel grounded in what matters most to them.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving distress tolerance. It’s often used alongside emotion-focused work when regulation skills are needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as therapy progresses so the plan stays responsive and practical.
Online sessions include video calls, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Heather commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, and related concerns such as codependency and career stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy, client-centered listening, and practical DBT skills to help people manage intense feelings and improve emotional connection.
What is her clinical background and experience?
Heather has ten years of clinical experience and a long history of advocacy and education around dissociative disorders and trauma.
Where is Heather licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Heather accepts international clients for online work.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with Heather?
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