Heather Scarboro, LCMHC

Heather Scarboro is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on helping people navigate sexual and intimacy-related concerns, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and stress. They use straightforward, compassionate conversation to help clients make sense of painful patterns and find practical steps forward. Heather aims to create a respectful space where people can speak openly about identity, body image, kink, and relationship struggles.

Heather brings ten years of clinical experience and a long personal history with dissociative disorders, which informs their sensitivity to trauma and complex presentations. Their background includes work with elder care, community mental health, university students, front line workers, and LGBTQIAP+ communities. This range shapes a flexible approach that honors each person’s life context.

In sessions Heather blends client-centered work with techniques from emotionally-focused therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people regulate emotions and repair connection. They also use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address traumatic memories when that fits the client’s goals. Treatment plans are collaborative and paced to the person’s readiness.

Heather also integrates expressive arts, clinical hypnosis, and mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral ideas into therapy. Outside of clinical work they write, podcast, and present to increase accurate public understanding of dissociative identity disorder. Their pronouns are they/them and they work with clients in North Carolina and internationally in English.

To begin, clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on therapist availability through the platform.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what the person says. It helps people feel understood and clarify their own goals before choosing specific techniques.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful for stress, anger, and relationship struggles when people need tools for steadying day-to-day life.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports noticing and expressing core emotions that drive relationship patterns. It can help people shift how they connect and communicate around intimacy and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will talk with clients about their goals, history, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process that can change as people progress.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow follow-up work between meetings. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches for remote work, using shorter check-ins or longer sessions depending on what best suits a person’s schedule and needs.