Therapist in Pleasant Grove, Utah Heather Smith, Therapist
Gender Identity: Female (She/Her)
Ages Served: 11-75+
Appointments: In-office and Online
Manages Medications: No, provides therapy only
Accepts Insurance: Yes - View accepted plans
Heather Smith, MS, LCSW
Specializes In:
Heather Smith helps adolescents, teens, and adults across Utah navigate emotional challenges, build resilience, and create meaningful change in their lives. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with LifeStance Health, she provides thoughtful, evidence-based care for individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. Heather’s approach is grounded in empathy and collaboration, offering a supportive space where clients feel understood while developing practical tools to improve daily functioning and overall well-being. Heather is especially passionate about helping individuals work through anxiety, depression, and PTSD/trauma. She understands how these concerns can impact relationships, self-esteem, and quality of life, and she partners with clients to process difficult experiences while strengthening coping skills. Her goal is to help each person feel more empowered, stable, and confident in managing life’s challenges. Her clinical work integrates proven therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and EMDR. She also offers additional therapeutic modalities to meet each client’s unique needs. Heather provides individual, family, and group therapy, and has experience supporting individuals in adoption and foster care systems, ensuring care is tailored with sensitivity and understanding. Heather works with adolescents, teens, adults, and older adults, offering support across life stages. She is committed to creating a safe, respectful environment where clients can explore their experiences and make lasting progress toward their mental health goals. Outside of her professional work, Heather enjoys staying active through hiking, rock climbing, snowboarding, and playing soccer. She deeply values time with her husband and daughters, prioritizing connection and balance in her personal life.
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Family Therapy: Ages 11-75+
- Individual Therapy: Ages 11-75+
- Couples Therapy: Ages 18-75+
Areas of Focus
Family Therapy
Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.
- Adoption & foster care
- Attachment issues
- Family conflict
- Ability status
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Caregiving
- Childhood behavioral issues
- Depression/feeling down
- Ethnic identity
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Intense mood changes
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Panic attacks
- Parenting
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- School avoidance
- School behavioral issues
- Self-esteem
- Sexual trauma
- Social injustice
- Stress management
- Trauma & PTSD
Individual Therapy
Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.
- Anxiety
- Depression/feeling down
- Panic attacks
- Self-esteem
- Sexual trauma
- Stress management
- Trauma & PTSD
- Ability status
- ADHD
- Adoption & foster care
- Anger issues
- Attachment issues
- Attention & focus
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Childhood behavioral issues
- Detachment/disconnection
- Dissociative disorders
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- Eating issues: binging
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Hoarding
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other women's health concerns
- Parenting
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- Religion & spirituality
- School avoidance
- School behavioral issues
- Self-injury or cutting
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Social injustice
- Unhealthy eating habits
Couples Therapy
Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.
- General relationship issues
- Marital stress or divorce
- Premarital counseling
- Religion & spirituality
- Ability status
- Adoption & foster care
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Caregiving
- Depression/feeling down
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Gender identity
- Grief & loss
- Intense mood changes
- LGBTQ+
- Panic attacks
- Parenting
- Racial identity
- Self-esteem
- Sex & intimacy issues
- Social injustice
- Stress management
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Deseret Mutual Benefit Admin(DMBA)
- Devoted Health Plan
- EMI Health
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Motiv / Health Utah Management
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Public Employees Health Program
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield (L)
- Sana Benefits
- Select Health
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Tricare West (TriWest) (L)
- University of Utah Health Plans
- WISE Provider Networks
Languages
- English
Education
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Utah Valley University
FAQs
Please use our online form to schedule an appointment with Heather Smith. You can also call 801-849-3148 to have someone assist you.
Heather Smith generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 801-849-3148 to find out Heather Smith's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Heather Smith:
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Deseret Mutual Benefit Admin(DMBA)
- Devoted Health Plan
- EMI Health
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Motiv / Health Utah Management
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Public Employees Health Program
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield (L)
- Sana Benefits
- Select Health
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Tricare West (TriWest) (L)
- University of Utah Health Plans
- WISE Provider Networks
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 801-849-3148 to see how we can help.
Heather Smith is a Therapist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Heather Smith works at:
Yes, Heather Smith does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Heather Smith is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: