Heather Parenti

Heather Parenti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 27 years of experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, eating concerns, addictions, and major life changes. Heather writes and creates art, keeps active as an athlete, and draws on those life experiences in her work.

Her approach is practical and grounded. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that cause pain and learning small, doable changes. She uses mindfulness practices alongside tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help clients notice thoughts and try different actions. Heather also draws from attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions.

Heather has worked in private practice since 2004 and has experience in medical and mental health settings, schools, and athletic coaching. She earned her degree from California State University Long Beach and holds LCSW licenses in California and Connecticut. She moved to Connecticut in 2017 and continues to combine clinical work with meditation and creative practice.

In therapy she helps people build skills for emotion regulation, improve communication, and manage sleep or parenting challenges. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Heather encourages clients to find more contentment and to make choices that support a fuller life.

She welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by life transitions or who struggle with self-worth, body image, codependency, chronic illness, caregiver stress, or intimacy issues. Heather aims to help clients discover strengths they can use outside the therapy room.

How Heather’s approaches translate to online work

Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple present-moment practices such as breath awareness and body noticing. These techniques help lower stress, reduce rumination, and support better sleep and emotion management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and helps people change how they connect and set boundaries in relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, eating-related issues, and many everyday struggles because it breaks problems into small, manageable steps.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. She adjusts pace and tools as needed, mixing mindfulness, attachment ideas, and CBT techniques based on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They can reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins during work breaks, and let people join from quieter spaces when that is helpful. Licensed professionals can adapt mindfulness exercises, skill practice, and reflective conversation to remote sessions so therapy can continue with ordinary daily routines.