Heather Engle

Heather Engle is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and anger. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Colorado. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at making the first steps feel less overwhelming.

She focuses on building a trusting space where people can talk about hard feelings without judgment. Sessions emphasize practical tools for day-to-day life, like strategies for handling intense emotions and improving confidence. Heather encourages small changes that add up over time.

Heather uses several evidence-informed approaches to guide her work. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Mindfulness practices are used to help people notice feelings and reduce reactivity.

For people whose distress comes from trauma or ongoing painful memories, she incorporates trauma-focused methods and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to work through those experiences. Dialectical behavior elements appear when emotion regulation and interpersonal skills are a priority.

She brings four years of professional experience to sessions and aims to meet each person where they are. Conversations are practical and collaborative, with a focus on what the person wants to change. Heather supports people who want clearer boundaries, less reactivity, and more confidence in daily life.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Heather commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new, practical responses. CBT often focuses on small experiments and skill practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and reactivity.

She also draws on trauma-focused methods and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people whose distress is linked to past events. These approaches aim to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and help people reconnect with everyday life without being overwhelmed.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Heather works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as progress happens.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, trauma-focused techniques, and EMDR elements to remote settings when appropriate, and Heather uses practical tools that can be practiced between meetings to support progress.