Heather Kangur, LCSW

Heather Kangur is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people facing big life stresses. She works from New York and supports people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD, grief, and relationship and family concerns. Heather uses straightforward, down-to-earth language and aims to make conversations feel manageable.

Heather began her career in 1996 working with adults and children who had intellectual and physical disabilities. That early work shaped her interest in practical supports and long-term problem solving. Over the years she has provided individual therapy, led groups, and managed behavioral casework.

Her approach blends several methods so sessions can be tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses client-centered and emotionally focused ideas to strengthen connections and help people feel heard.

Mindfulness and existential perspectives are part of her toolbox as well, offering ways to notice feelings, clarify values, and find purpose after loss or major change. Heather has experience with adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, caregiver stress, hoarding, and challenges linked to intellectual disability.

She offers evening and weekend contact and checks messages regularly. People who choose Heather can expect clear, practical conversation aimed at small, doable steps toward relief and clearer decision making.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Heather often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel understood and decide what changes to try next.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful behaviors. CBT is frequently used for anxiety, depression, and managing stress in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That may mean combining strategies over time and adjusting based on what helps most.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats can change. The biography lists video, phone, and text contact as ways she interacts with people, so ask which are currently offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can work on changes between appointments.