Heather White-McClane , LPC

Heather White-McClane is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She practices in Georgia and uses straightforward methods to help clients make changes that matter in daily life.

Heather focuses on practical skills and steady support. She helps people build coping tools for cravings and urges, learn ways to calm anxiety, and regain confidence after setbacks. Sessions aim to be clear, goal-focused, and paced to each person’s needs.

Her approach centers on listening first. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room. From that starting point, she may introduce behavioral steps or mindfulness practices to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Heather also works with issues that often appear alongside core concerns, such as feelings of abandonment, codependency, communication and control problems, divorce and separation, and guilt or shame. She addresses both substance-related problems and the emotional patterns that keep people stuck.

Over three decades, Heather has combined talk therapy with skills-based tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness strategies. Her style is calm, direct, and supportive. People meet clear expectations and realistic steps for change.

She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats to fit different schedules. Getting started begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy is built around listening and following what matters most to the client. Online sessions allow Heather to hear a person’s concerns, set goals together, and shape sessions to those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. In an online format CBT can include homework, thought records, and step-by-step skills to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to handle strong feelings and urges; those skills can be taught and practiced during video or messaging sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing contact, quick check-ins, and skills practice between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping treatment focused and goal-directed.