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Heather Kangur, LCSW

  • Experience18 years
  • LocationNew York
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Heather

Heather Kangur is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 18 years of practice, bringing long-term experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and ADHD.

Background and approach

She began her career in 1996 working with adults and children with intellectual and physical disabilities and has since broadened her work to include a wide range of life challenges such as domestic violence, relationship and family dynamics, and impulse-related concerns. Her approach emphasizes a collaborative therapeutic relationship that centers the client’s needs and lived experience.

Heather integrates evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused work alongside existential and mindfulness-based perspectives to address coping skills, self-esteem, life purpose, and communication difficulties. She also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, hoarding, and other focused concerns.

Based in New York, Heather offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, with evening and weekend availability. Her practice aims to help people explore practical strategies and deeper meaning as they navigate change and healing.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Heather draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. She also uses emotionally-focused therapy to explore attachment and relationship patterns and to strengthen emotional awareness and connection in close relationships. Mindfulness-informed techniques are woven into sessions to support present-moment coping and stress reduction.

Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Heather works with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and life context, and she adjusts methods over time so that therapy remains relevant and useful for the client’s needs.

Online therapy with Heather is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allows for scheduling flexibility and multiple ways to communicate outside traditional office hours. These formats aim to make consistent care more accessible for those balancing work, family, or other responsibilities, and they make it possible to continue therapeutic work from a familiar setting.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Heather address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting and family issues, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is collaborative and client-centered, blending cognitive behavioral tools with emotionally-focused and mindfulness-informed strategies to address patterns and skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Heather has 18 years of professional experience, including work with individuals who have intellectual and physical disabilities and many years of individual therapy and group facilitation.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in New York with license number NY LCSW 090719 and practices from New York.
What languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats does she offer?
Heather provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How are session costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in getting started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseParenting issuesDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefSelf esteemADHD

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDivorce and separationEmptinessFamily problemsHoardingImpulsivityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

18+ years

Licensed

New York

Languages

English

What Heather can help with

Heather Kangur works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, depression, and coping with life changes.

Heather works with adults and children with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Heather works with those struggling with depression, people with autism, and traumatic brain injury.

How Heather approaches therapy

Heather's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Heather is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in New York.