Heather Wilkie, LMHC

Heather Wilkie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She focuses on practical, person-centered work to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. She also supports people coping with addictions, trauma, grief, mood challenges, and questions around identity. Heather brings nine years of counseling experience to her work and aims to make therapy straightforward and usable.

Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered therapy, and existential ideas. In sessions she helps people notice what matters to them, challenge unhelpful thinking, and strengthen emotional connection in relationships. She uses simple exercises, reflective conversation, and goal-focused steps people can try between meetings.

Heather has a long history of working with LGBTQ communities and draws on that experience to offer an affirming, culturally aware stance. She helps people facing attachment issues, neurodiversity like autism and Asperger syndrome, and concerns related to kink and alternative sexual cultures. She also addresses parenting stress, blended family dynamics, and codependency patterns.

People meet her for career strain, changes in life stage, addiction recovery, eating or sleep problems, and coping with grief or trauma. Heather aims to move at each person’s pace and to co-create a plan that fits their goals. To begin, readers should use the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule according to therapist availability.

Approaches that guide online work

Heather uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps toward those goals. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where someone wants more direction and purpose.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills people can practice between sessions to improve mood, sleep, and daily routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as needs evolve.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking. The main practical benefits of doing therapy remotely include easier scheduling around work or family demands, the ability to have shorter check-ins when needed, and avoiding commute time so appointments are simpler to fit into a day. Ask about formats and scheduling during the matching and booking steps so you know what options are offered.