About Heather
Heather Nelson is a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia with 26 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, and relationship difficulties. Heather aims to meet people where they are and treat them with respect and compassion.
She uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. Sessions are shaped around what feels most useful to the client, combining body-focused awareness and talk-based tools.
Background and approach
Heather emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions to make daily life feel more manageable. Her background includes long-term work with people coping with grief, addiction, ADHD, and career or identity concerns. She also supports those navigating intimacy, communication, and boundary issues.
Over many years she has worked to blend emotional understanding with skills people can use right away. Heather draws on Somatic approaches to notice how the body holds stress, and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-based and client-centered ways of working shape how she builds trust and listens.
Together these methods aim to help people feel steadier and more able to act on their values. Her practice offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
Heather frames the first steps as collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to bodily signals and simple movement or breath awareness. Online sessions can still use these practices to notice tension, grounding, and how feelings show up in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and small committed steps; it helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete techniques to reduce symptoms and build new habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try out strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. That way the plan fits the client’s needs, comfort, and day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging give options for shorter check-ins or moments when typing feels easier. These formats can make it simpler to use therapy tools in real life and maintain continuity between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English