About Heather
Heather Rink-Rosas is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 18 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
She treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Heather speaks English and Spanish and works with adults who want practical tools and steady support.
Heather uses a mix of therapy methods to match each person's needs. She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life. Sessions focus on clear, practical work.
Heather helps clients name what they feel, try new ways of responding, and build skills for everyday situations. She adapts pace and homework to what fits each person’s life and goals.
Her background includes nearly two decades in clinical practice in California. That experience informs how she responds to trauma, relationship stress, and complex mood challenges such as bipolar disorder.
Heather emphasizes straightforward communication and goals you can measure over time. Starting therapy with her usually begins with a brief match process and scheduling.
Heather supports people who need live sessions or text-based options, and she explains the plan so clients know what to expect.
How these approaches work online
Heather commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. ACT helps people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values, which can be useful for stress, grief, and addictive patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest which methods to try first. Together they check progress and adjust the plan so the work fits the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let someone work face to face when they prefer that interaction. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions, track progress in writing, or use brief check-ins when schedules are tight.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish