Heather Friend, LCSW, CSW
Colorado · 8 years in practice
Heather Friend, LCSW, CSW, offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or parenting worries.
License and registration
- LCSW, Colorado
- CSW.09927984 · expires August 2027
- LMSW, Michigan
- 6801117005 · expires August 2026
- LCSW, Illinois
- 149026353 · expires November 2027
- LCSW, Louisiana
- 19767 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1366083321 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 8
- 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 Friend, LCSW, CSW, offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or parenting worries. She helps with trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD, and challenges like sleep or eating struggles. Her work also covers career strain, compassion fatigue, and navigating big life changes.
She favors a warm, collaborative style that centers the person's own goals. Sessions move at the client's pace and focus on practical steps that build confidence and emotional clarity.
Background and approach
Heather listens without judgment and helps people identify strengths they can use each day. Heather blends several approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on Existential ideas about meaning and choice, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Attachment-Based work to address connection and safety in relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral techniques are used when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Over eight years she has worked with a wide range of concerns, from intimate issues and LGBT topics to chronic health, caregiver stress, and body image. Heather aims to make sessions usable and relevant so people leave with concrete next steps for coping and growth.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled on weekdays, evenings, and weekends. Messaging between sessions is available for additional support. Heather practices from Colorado as an LCSW in Illinois and Colorado.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Heather lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heather names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Heather uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small, values-driven actions even when emotions are difficult. That approach helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in close relationships and to build more supported ways of relating. This work can help with intimacy concerns, trust issues, and connection challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and how they react to different strategies. Together they decide what to try first and adjust over time based on what is most helpful.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow for a face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling evening or weekend appointments and let clients continue work when travel or relocation occurs.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Heather commonly address?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and caregiver strain, addictions, ADHD, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm, open-minded, and collaborative. She helps clients set their own pace and focuses on practical steps that build confidence and clarity.
What background and experience does she have?
Heather has eight years of clinical experience working with a broad range of mental health and life concerns, including chronic illness, body image, and compassion fatigue.
What credentials and location are listed for her?
She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices from Colorado with licensure noted as IL LCSW and CO LCSW.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
Heather offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin sessions?
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