About Heather
Heather Sheidler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 16 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, or relationship and family conflict. Her tone is practical and supportive, focused on helping clients make steady changes that fit their daily lives.
She uses straightforward conversation and skill-building in sessions. That can mean learning ways to manage strong emotions, developing better communication habits, or practicing skills to reduce anxious thoughts.
Background and approach
Heather believes clients already have strengths to build on and works with them to find what helps in the real world. Her background includes work in residential settings and outpatient and community mental health agencies. That experience shaped her ability to support people facing complex trauma, life transitions, parenting strains, addictions, and mood challenges.
She has also worked with those recovering from physical or emotional abuse. Heather blends several counseling approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on methods that teach new coping skills, increase awareness of patterns, and strengthen motivation for change.
Sessions usually include collaboration on goals and practical homework to practice skills between meetings. Clients describe her approach as collaborative and focused on usable tools rather than abstract theory. She aims to create a space where people can talk honestly, try new behaviors, and track progress over time.
If someone wants step-by-step help for day-to-day struggles, Heather offers that kind of hands-on support.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Heather often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for panic, mood issues, and ADHD-related difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heather treats therapy as a collaboration and will help you decide which methods fit your goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean mixing approaches or focusing on one method for a time, and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit sessions into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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