Heather Abreu , LPC, LMHC

Heather Abreu is a licensed mental health clinician who helps people navigate difficult transitions, relationship challenges, addiction, trauma, and family conflict. She welcomes those taking the step to seek support and focuses on creating a collaborative, compassionate space where concerns can be explored and actionable plans developed to improve daily functioning and overall well-being.

With over 15 years of counseling experience, she has worked across mental health, addiction treatment, and criminal justice settings as well as in private practice. Her background includes extensive work with individuals affected by addiction and their loved ones, people who have experienced trauma, and families facing conflict. She also supports clients through life transitions such as divorce, returning to the workforce, and career change.

Her approach is integrative and rooted in the belief that each person is the expert on their own life. Heather practices person-centered and strength-based care, combining evidence-based techniques to address the specific needs of each client. She aims to guide and support clients in building the skills and confidence needed to move forward, meeting them where they are and building on existing resources. Though empathetic and patient, she may gently challenge clients to move beyond comfort zones when that supports growth. Heather holds LPC and LMHC credentials, licenses that indicate professional training to provide mental health counseling.

Integrative approaches adapted for online care

Heather practices an integrative approach that draws from multiple evidence-based techniques to tailor care to each person. This means combining different therapeutic tools rather than relying on a single method, which can be especially helpful for complex concerns like addiction, trauma, and major life transitions.

She also emphasizes person-centered, strength-based work that treats the client as the expert of their own life. This approach focuses on identifying existing strengths and building practical skills and confidence, and can be effective for challenges such as family conflict, career changes, and coping with loss.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Heather works collaboratively with clients to determine which techniques fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting plans over time based on progress and feedback.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how care is delivered - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of support from a distance. Licensed professionals can adapt these formats to guide skill-building, manage symptoms, and support meaningful change.