About Heidi
Heidi Summers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with deep experience helping adults handle stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, and ADHD-related concerns. She writes in a direct, warm way and aims to make sessions feel approachable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Heidi practices from California and brings 26 years of clinical work to each meeting.
She focuses on practical help for relationship strain, parenting struggles, career stress, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Heidi also supports people coping with trauma, domestic violence histories, and complicated family of origin issues. Sessions commonly address impulsivity, feelings of emptiness, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Her style centers on listening and building a respectful, accepting space.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person sitting across from her. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, testable changes between sessions. Heidi often uses solution-focused strategies to set clear, short-term goals and work toward them in doable steps.
For people processing traumatic events, she incorporates trauma-focused interventions that aim to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. The approach is adaptive rather than rigid and is chosen to match each person's needs. Outside of work she has navigated significant life losses and long periods of solo parenting, experiences that inform her practical outlook.
Those life chapters shaped how she supports people facing intense change and complicated grief. Heidi welcomes conversations about whether her way of working fits your needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Heidi uses client-centered work to build a respectful, person-focused space where the conversation starts with what matters most to the client. That approach helps people feel heard and sets priorities for change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and trying small, practical experiments to shift them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related patterns, and mood regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Heidi will discuss your history, current goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. She adjusts the plan as you try things and as needs evolve.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you meet face to face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be easier with limited bandwidth or when being off camera is preferred. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping ideas, or ongoing support between sessions. These choices give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, parenting, and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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