About Heidi
Heidi Herrick-Lynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 27 years of counseling experience. She offers a calm, client-centered style that helps people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. Her approach focuses on practical steps people can use in daily life.
She works with concerns around relationships, self-esteem, grief, trauma, and intimacy-related issues. Heidi often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic work appear in her practice when exploring what drives a person's choices and patterns. Many clients come to Heidi for help with parenting strain, sleep difficulties, and major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with obsessions, compulsions, and challenges in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. Sessions aim to check immediate concerns and set small, achievable steps forward. Heidi schedules sessions on weekday evenings and weekends to fit busy lives.
She offers conversations that are direct but empathetic, helping clients find what works for them. Her long experience includes earlier licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts before practicing in New Jersey. In sessions clients can expect a collaborative pace.
Heidi helps people weigh options, try new skills, and adjust plans when needed. The goal is steady progress on concrete goals rather than vague promises of change.
Using practical therapy approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's own goals. In this approach the therapist follows the person's lead, reflects concerns, and helps them decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Heidi will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That means sessions are collaborative and adapt as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use written reflection when speaking by voice is difficult. These options make it easier to use CBT exercises, practice DBT skills, and follow up on action steps between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English