About Heather
Heather Sheidler is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, stress, trauma, and difficult life transitions. She brings 16 years of experience in mental health and explains things plainly so clients can use new skills right away. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at practical changes rather than jargon.
Heather has worked in residential and outpatient community mental health settings across Michigan. She has supported people facing complex trauma and abuse, and she has helped with depression, mood and anger challenges, and relationship or family conflict.
Background and approach
She also offers approaches for parenting stress, addiction concerns, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and identity. Her style blends several well-known therapies to suit each person’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She incorporates mindfulness and acceptance strategies to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance. Heather emphasizes a collaborative relationship where the client’s goals guide the work. She encourages active practice between sessions and adapts plans as progress is made.
Sessions are practical, with exercises and skills people can try in everyday life. People who want clear, steady support through stressful times often benefit from her approach. Heather aims to help clients find small, manageable steps toward greater stability and clearer choices.
She offers sessions online through several formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Heather commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood challenges.She treats finding the right approach as a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan together as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, DBT-informed skills, or mindfulness practices are the best fit for particular concerns.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls enable face-to-face dialog and guided exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat is useful for focused check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to work around work, caregiving, or travel and to keep therapy consistent when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English