About Heather
Heather Scarbrough uses relational and evidence-informed approaches to help people cope with hard moments. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona with ten years of experience.
Background and approach
Heather aims to make therapy straightforward and understandable for people under stress. She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and overwhelming stress.
She also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and the strain of parenting. Relationship and intimacy concerns are common topics in her work.
Heather blends approaches such as attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical strategies, and emotion-focused methods. She also uses EMDR for people who are processing traumatic memories.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps, clearer communication, and small changes that add up over time. Her practice pays attention to overlapping issues like ADHD, codependency, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family stress.
She will talk through control issues, commitment questions, and family problems in ways that feel manageable. The aim is to identify patterns and try new ways of relating and coping.
Heather meets with people by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People who live in Arizona and speak English will find the service fits their schedules and needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand their relational patterns and try new ways of connecting that feel safer and clearer. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going; it teaches practical steps and exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and actions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to work through distressing memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing to reduce the intensity of those memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and personal preferences, then suggest how attachment work, CBT, EMDR, or a mix of methods might help. That plan can change as needs evolve, and decisions are made together in session.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attending easier. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper interpersonal work. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging allows brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English