About Heidi
Heidi Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Arizona. She brings 12 years of experience helping adults manage anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD-related challenges, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Heidi aims to meet people where they are and offer calm, practical support when life feels overwhelming.
She treats conversations as a collaborative process. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and tools people can use between meetings. Heidi adapts her pace and language to each person's needs and values, keeping things straightforward and compassionate.
Background and approach
Her background spans work with people facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those navigating caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and problems that come from blended families or family of origin dynamics. Heidi draws on multiple therapy styles to address both emotions and behaviors.
In therapy she blends acceptance-based skills with emotion-focused work and strategies that help with communication and coping. That mix aims to help clients develop new ways to relate to themselves and others while practicing concrete skills that reduce distress. She emphasizes practical tools for sleeping, managing anger, and improving self-esteem.
Heidi works with people on career stress, intimacy worries, eating and sleeping problems, and the fallout from life changes like divorce or disaster. Her approach centers on respect and sensitivity, and she tailors plans to each person's situation and goals.
How Heidi’s Approaches Work Online
The work often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on actions that match what matters most. EFT centers on emotions in relationships and helps people build more helpful ways of connecting with others and expressing needs.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Heidi will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is helping most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when shorter, more frequent contact is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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