About Heather
Heather Parenti helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, eating issues, addictions, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She meets people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or like they aren’t enough. Heather aims to help them find steadier ground and more satisfying daily life.
Heather is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - with 27 years of experience. She trained at California State University, Long Beach and practiced in Southern California before moving to Connecticut in 2017.
How Heather works
Her work has included independent practice, medical and mental health settings, schools, and coaching in athletics. Her approach adapts to each person. She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems going.
She draws on dialectical and mindfulness tools to manage intense feelings and build coping skills. She also uses attachment-focused and emotionally-focused concepts to look at how relationships shape current struggles. For people working on romantic connection, she incorporates principles from the Gottman Method to address communication and intimacy.
Heather blends practical skill-building with reflective work such as narrative exercises, creative practices, and mindfulness. She brings experience with parenting issues, body image and eating concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress, anger, and career questions. The goal is useful change that fits a person’s life and values.
Heather lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Heather works with
The areas below are the ones Heather selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
How Heather’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape how people connect and feel safe. In practice it looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people try new ways of relating that reduce fear and isolation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by setting clear goals and practicing small changes between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings mindfulness and emotion-regulation skills to manage intense feelings and improve coping. It is useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone wants steadier responses under pressure.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and situation. She integrates techniques as needed and adjusts the plan if something isn’t helping.
Because the biography does not specify session formats, confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins or appointments around work or caregiving. Licensed professionals can use these approaches to support progress even when sessions are not in person, focusing on skills practice, communication work, and tracking small changes over time.
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