About Haylee
Haylee Heckert is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma. She aims to build a respectful, warm connection so clients feel heard and understood. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, with clear goals and practical next steps.
She draws on client-centered therapy to keep the client's perspective front and center. That means sessions emphasize active listening, empathy, and working at a comfortable pace.
Background and approach
Haylee also uses principles from the Gottman Method when relationship issues are part of the work, offering structured tools to improve communication and reduce conflict. With three years of clinical experience, Haylee has worked in a variety of settings, including college services and inpatient care during her internship.
She has supported people facing ADHD, grief, parenting strain, and challenges like panic attacks, self-harm, and sexual assault recovery. Her background gives her experience with both short-term goals and longer healing work. In sessions she helps people define practical goals and build simple plans to reach them.
She invites feedback and adjusts the plan as needed, keeping the process collaborative. Haylee focuses on real skills people can use between meetings to manage emotions and handle difficult moments. Haylee practices in South Dakota and provides services in English.
She offers a calm, accepting approach and encourages people to talk about how therapy should feel to be most helpful.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely to the person and reflecting what they say. Online sessions using this approach give space for people to set the pace, name their goals, and guide the topics they want to address. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and processing trauma in a supportive setting.The Gottman Method provides practical tools to improve communication and reduce conflict in close relationships. When relationship concerns come up, Haylee can introduce structured exercises and conversation techniques that partners can practice between sessions to change interaction patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust based on what works for each person. Clients and the therapist collaborate to find goals and methods that fit needs and preferences rather than following a fixed plan.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when video isn't needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing connection between longer sessions. These choices help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English