About Heidi
Heidi Schlig is a California-based licensed professional counselor with 14 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety while helping people manage family and parenting concerns. Heidi aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard for them.
She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and notice what matters most to them. Heidi uses straightforward methods to address workplace struggles, career decisions, and attention challenges related to ADHD.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment wounds, and forgiveness work. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Heidi blends talk and practical exercises to help people try new ways of coping.
She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavior techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered work to match each person’s needs. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Heidi listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals that fit everyday life.
She works with people navigating impulsivity, post-traumatic stress reactions, and issues common to young adults moving into new life stages. People who prefer clear steps and an empathetic therapist often find this approach useful. Throughout, Heidi emphasizes respect for each person’s pace and choices while guiding them toward more manageable routines and clearer priorities.
How Heidi’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult feelings. In online sessions this can look like naming personal values and practicing brief exercises between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress. Via video or chat, clients and the therapist can work through specific thought patterns and plan actionable experiments for daily life.Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. If something doesn’t fit, adjustments are made so the plan matches the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, more frequent touchpoints for quick support or progress updates. These options make it easier to fit work on relationships, parenting challenges, or career planning into a busy week.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Post-traumatic stress
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English