Heather Hershey-Tompkins, LISW

Heather Hershey-Tompkins is an Ohio licensed social worker with 20 years of professional experience. She uses clear, practical therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and mood challenges. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on everyday steps parents and individuals can use right away.

She mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance-based and mindfulness strategies. Sessions often include learning new thinking habits, trying small behavioral changes, and practicing mindful awareness. Heather helps people work through life changes, career concerns, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, and the emotional strain of caregiving or compassion fatigue.

Clients can expect a collaborative approach that centers their own goals and strengths. Heather believes people know their story best and that therapy is about building on what already works. She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence while helping people experiment with different coping tools.

Over the course of two decades she has supported people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD-related struggles, social anxiety, and isolation. Her practice also addresses communication problems and finding life purpose. Heather uses simple language and specific exercises rather than long explanations.

Sessions focus on practical skills, emotional understanding, and small steps toward better daily routines. The aim is to reduce distress and improve functioning through repeated practice and real-world application. Heather works in English and provides services from Ohio as a licensed independent social worker, LISW.

How Heather's Approaches Work Online

Heather draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT often includes short exercises and homework that translate well to online sessions, helping with anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy complements this by teaching skills to accept difficult feelings while committing to values-driven actions, which can support coping with grief, life changes, and chronic worry.

Therapy is a collaborative process. Heather will work with each person to figure out which approach or combination of approaches fits best. Together they set goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what actually helps in daily life rather than sticking to one fixed plan.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and guided practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging can help track progress between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while continuing steady work on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.