Heather Burgess, LCMHC

Heather Burgess is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who earned her master’s degree from Montreat College and has practiced since 2018. She also holds credentialing with the National Board for Certified Counselors and is a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist with the North Carolina Addiction Specialist Professional Practice Board, qualifications she draws on when working with individuals and families across a range of concerns.

Her background includes service on an ACTT team and work in a men’s residential substance use program in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as experience as a crisis hospital advocate with Our Voice, Inc. She has provided continuing education courses on sex trafficking and now offers in-home therapy to families when a child or youth is at risk of out-of-home placement. In that role she uses a systems-based approach that coordinates school, home, legal, and social services and incorporates tools from Internal Family Systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and art-based therapy.

Heather provides private counseling to individuals aged 13 and up for issues such as substance use, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger, personality disorders, and common life stressors like divorce or relocation. Her work is integrative and rooted heavily in cognitive behavioral therapy with a trauma-informed perspective. She emphasizes nonjudgmental, action-oriented support that empowers people to identify goals and build practical skills, collaborating with clients to create individualized plans and celebrate progress at every step.