About Heidi
Heidi Skattebo is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, who practices from Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or depression. Heidi aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for anyone seeking change.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Heidi helps people talk through difficult feelings and make small, realistic changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters now - mood, motivation, relationships, and coping after loss or big changes. Heidi draws on common evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward clear goals. She works with clients on strategies for managing impulsivity, addictive behaviors, and emotional overwhelm.
When needed, she addresses long-standing issues such as trauma, grief, or complicated family dynamics one step at a time. This work also covers concerns tied to neurodiversity and developmental differences, including support related to ADHD, autism, and intellectual disability. Heidi pays attention to how multiple challenges interact, like depression with anxiety or co-occurring conditions, and adjusts plans accordingly.
Practical matters such as parenting strain, career stress, relationship communication, and recovery from infidelity or domestic violence are discussed with a focus on coping skills and safety. Heidi encourages a steady pace and clear next steps so progress is measurable and manageable.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Heidi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is skill-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and planning tools to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings. These skills help with day-to-day stress and crises in the moment.Another approach emphasizes behavioral strategies that target routines, sleep, activity, and impulse control. This kind of work breaks larger goals into small tasks to build momentum and reduce avoidance, which can be useful for depression, ADHD-related challenges, and addictions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. Heidi collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Together they decide which strategies feel most helpful and realistic for the client's life and preferences.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options provide flexibility for ongoing work, short coaching moments, or steady support between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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