Heather Scarboro, LCMHC
North Carolina · 10 years in practice
Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship 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 focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. Heather works with a wide range of issues including addiction, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, burnout, and identity-related concerns.
Heather draws on approaches that center the client's experience. She uses client-centered methods to build trust and DBT skills to teach emotion regulation and coping tools.
Background and approach
She also incorporates emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand attachment and connection patterns, and uses EMDR as one of several trauma-focused methods. Her background includes about 10 years of practice in North Carolina. Heather has worked with older adults, community mental health settings, university students, frontline workers, and LGBTQIAP+ communities.
That variety has shaped how she adapts sessions to different needs and life stages. Sessions tend to be practical and paced to each person. Heather often blends talking, skills practice, and trauma-processing tools so people can leave with concrete strategies.
She also uses creative practices like music and expressive approaches when they fit a client’s style. Outside of the office Heather writes, speaks, and shares resources about dissociative disorders and trauma. She aims to increase public understanding through blogs, interviews, and presentations.
That outreach informs how she explains difficult topics in simple terms.
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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- 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
How Heather’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s concerns. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around what matters most to them rather than following a rigid plan.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behavior. It is useful when someone needs step-by-step tools for coping and regulating feelings.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and decrease their emotional charge. It is one option Heather may use as part of a broader plan for trauma work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most comfortable. They will try methods collaboratively and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video suits in-depth work and visual connection, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Heather address?
Heather works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and related challenges.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She mixes client-centered listening with practical skill-building and targeted trauma work.
What professional background does she bring?
She has about 10 years of clinical experience working in settings such as elder care, community mental health, and university counseling, and with frontline workers and LGBTQIAP+ communities.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LCMHC license and practices in North Carolina.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Heather?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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