About Heidi
Heidi Wendenburg is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, eating concerns, addictions, and ADHD-related struggles. She works with adolescents starting at age 12 and with adults up to age 65. Her tone is direct and practical, aimed at people who need clear steps more than clinical jargon.
She began in an adult acute psychiatric facility and later worked across residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization programs.
Background and approach
Much of her work has focused on eating disorder programs for teens and adults. She has also supported people in substance abuse and addiction programs at many levels of care, from detox through partial hospitalization. Her clinical toolkit draws on several methods, including client-centered approaches, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.
She combines techniques based on what each person needs rather than following a single formula. Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills, coping strategies, and real-life problem solving. Heidi pays particular attention to attachment and relationship patterns when those issues affect day-to-day functioning.
She also addresses concerns such as low self-esteem, boundary problems, codependency, grief, anger, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. Her practice aims to help people build small, steady changes that add up over time. People who want a straightforward approach and practical tools for coping may find her style useful.
She keeps the work focused and adaptable so goals can shift as progress is made.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that reflect their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and problems that come from getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches specific skills to change patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, or eating concerns. These techniques are often short-term and goal-focused.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to goals and everyday challenges, then suggest which methods to try first. That choice is collaborative and can change if something doesn’t feel like the right fit or if needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let you use face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy going amid busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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