Therapist profile
Heather Scarbrough, LMFT
Arizona
LMFT - relationships and codependency
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- Credentials
- LMFT
- License
- LMFT, Arizona / LMFT-15307
- NPI
- 1902446156
- Experience
- 10 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Arizona
About
- Attachment patterns
- Boundary work
- Trauma integration
About Heather
Heather Scarbrough is an Arizona Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 10 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, trauma and codependency. Heather helps people who find themselves putting others first and losing their own needs in the process.
She uses Attachment-Based work to look at patterns that began in early relationships. That helps clarify why certain reactions happen now. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are used to teach practical skills for emotion regulation and clearer thinking.
Her work with trauma draws on techniques like EMDR to address painful memories and the way they show up in daily life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) informs how she looks at closeness and conflict in adult relationships. Heather combines these methods to focus on what a client wants to change day to day.
In sessions she talks through communication problems, boundary setting, people-pleasing, and coping with someone else’s moods or substance use. She also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood struggles, forgiveness, and caregiver stress when those issues affect relationships and daily functioning.
Heather encourages straightforward goals and teaches concrete tools clients can use between sessions. She asks about current routines and specific situations so work in therapy connects directly to the problems people face at home and at work.
How sessions work
How attachment, CBT and DBT translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. Online work can map those patterns through conversation and focused exercises that track how you respond to closeness, criticism, or abandonment fears.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions CBT uses straightforward exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for handling stress and anxiety.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Online meetings can include skills coaching, role plays, and short practice tasks to try between appointments.
Heather will help figure out which approach or combination fits best for a client's situation and goals. That choice is a collaborative decision made together in early sessions based on what the client needs and prefers.
Session formats are not listed on the profile, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also makes it possible to continue steady work on boundaries, emotion skills, and trauma processing while balancing family and job responsibilities.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Arizona
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, trauma and codependency among other issues.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses practical, skills-based approaches such as CBT and DBT alongside attachment and emotionally-focused work to address emotions and relationship patterns.
How much experience does she have?
Heather has 10 years of clinical experience as a practicing therapist.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT licensed in Arizona and practices with that credential in that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I have sessions if I live outside the United States?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are sessions arranged and what formats are offered?
Confirm current session options before booking; the profile does not list specific formats and the reader should check the online booking flow for available session types.
How does cost and starting therapy work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.