About Heidi
Heidi Wendenburg is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who supports teens and adults through hard times. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, eating concerns, addiction, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and conversational.
She keeps language simple and centers each session on what the person bringing the concern needs most. Heidi’s background includes work in acute adult psychiatric settings and in residential and outpatient programs for eating disorders.
Background and approach
She has experience across levels of care, from detox to partial hospitalization, and has spent time in group practice settings. That mix of inpatient and outpatient work shaped how she helps people during crises and in steady recovery. Sessions often combine talk therapy with techniques from several evidence-informed approaches.
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and on dialectical skills for emotion regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward them. Attachment-based and client-centered methods guide how she builds a respectful therapeutic relationship.
Heidi treats each person as unique and tailors methods to fit the problem and preferences. She aims for real, doable steps rather than jargon-filled explanations. Her experience includes work with adolescents starting at age 12 and adults through age 65.
Common topics she addresses are trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Heidi encourages steady effort and holds hope for progress during difficult periods.
How Heidi’s Approaches Work Online
Heidi often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values, which can help with motivation and meaning. CBT teaches practical tools to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and eating concerns.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Heidi will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up day to day. Together you decide whether ACT, CBT, or a mix of approaches fits best, and she adjusts methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and practice skills in-session, while phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between scheduled meetings. These options help people fit therapy around school, work, and family life while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor 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