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Joseph Heeter

VA LPC 0701008139
Credentials
VA LPC 0701008139
NPI Number
1609334085
Location
Virginia
Languages
English
Joseph Heeter

Accepting new clients

14 years experience
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About Joseph Heeter

Feeling stuck doesn’t mean you have to stay there. I’m Joseph Heeter, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia with 13 years of experience helping people move through anxiety, trauma, relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, ADHD, depression, and major life transitions. My approach is warm, practical, and genuinely collaborative. You’ll have a space where you can feel heard without judgment—and where we’ll also look honestly at the patterns, beliefs, and experiences that may be holding you back. Together, we’ll turn insight into meaningful, achievable change. I draw from cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, attachment-based, narrative, and trauma-informed approaches, tailoring therapy to your needs, values, and goals. Whether you’re facing an immediate challenge or searching for greater clarity and purpose, I’ll help you reconnect with your strengths and move toward a life that feels more authentic, intentional, and fulfilling. You don’t need to have everything figured out before beginning. You only need to be willing to take the first step—and I’d be honored to take it with you.

Licenses

LPC
0701008139

Professional experience

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Family conflicts
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Parenting issues
  • Coping with life changes

Additional Focus Areas

  • LGBT
  • Relationship issues
  • Grief
  • Intimacy-related issues
  • Anger management
  • Self esteem
  • Career difficulties
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Depression
  • Compassion fatigue
  • ADHD

Clinical Approaches

  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Mindfulness Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Trauma-Focused Therapy

Languages

  • English

12 Reviews

“One of the better therapist I have encountered. Extremely helpful”

“I look forward to the day that we talk…. It truly helps me and I I feel good when done with our session…. Thank you so much 💚”

“As this has been my first experience with Therapy, Joseph has been easy to talk to and provides good insight into underlying issues.”

“Joseph is great!”

“Joseph is very good. He pays attention, and gets to the meat of the matter. After our first session we began to feel confident that our issues could be fixed.”

“Joseph Hester listens and communicates to me in a way that I can understand and is also always engaging and helpful. Just one session and I knew he was the therapist I wanted.”

“Only after two sessions of mostly listening to me talk and wondering if this was gonna work, he planned it just an enough seeds in my brain to help me see where some of my issues were coming from and then wrote an incredibly insightful summation of our first two sessions so we’re off to a brilliant start and I look forward to more time with Joseph”

“He’s amazing and has done such a great job listening. His approach is GREAT!”

“He’s not afraid to say the hard things. It feels good to have someone finally be straight with me, rather than tip toe around my feelings. His approach to therapy is a catalyst for change.”

“Very observant and gets to the point of the issue yet still allows one yo be heard fully and intently ”

“Joseph Heeter offers alternative view points and suggestions I would not have thought about on my own.”

“I am really happy on our sessions so far, I usually feel extremely anxious before but after speaking I have a lot more confidence ”

These reviews represent a few of the most recent positive reviews from the therapist's clients on BetterHelp. Some people's experience may be different.