About Heidi
Heidi Brown Stratton is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Missouri. She draws on six years of social work experience across women’s health, alternative sentencing, and hospice to support people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and intimacy-related issues. She approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Heidi tailors conversations and plans to match each person’s needs. She aims to help people take practical steps toward a more fulfilling life.
Background and approach
Her background includes working with the special needs and LGBTQ+ communities, which informs how she talks about identity and relationship differences. Heidi also has experience with topics such as parenting, career challenges, compassion fatigue, and body image. She offers help on a range of sexual health and relationship topics, including BDSM and kink, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, sexual dysfunction, and sex addiction.
Heidi also supports people dealing with fertility concerns, pregnancy and childbirth issues, and the emotional strain of loss. Therapy sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and pace. Heidi uses conversational tools rather than one-size-fits-all steps.
She focuses on what matters to the individual and works with them to set doable goals and actions.
How Heidi's Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It aims to create a supportive conversation where the client sets goals and the therapist follows their lead. This is useful for anxiety, grief, relationship questions, and self esteem concerns.Motivational Interviewing is a practical, goal-focused approach that helps people find their reasons for change. It uses questions and reflections to strengthen motivation and plan small steps, which can help with career shifts, parenting choices, or lifestyle changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heidi will talk with each person about their needs and try methods that fit their goals and preferences. That way the plan can shift if something isn’t helping and stick with what does.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, and Heidi adapts methods to suit how you like to connect.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English