About Heidi
Heidi Whyte is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She works with adults facing mood concerns like depression and bipolar, parenting strains, career stress, and challenges related to trauma and abuse. Sessions are practical and aimed at small, steady changes people can use in daily life.
Heidi combines several conversational styles to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most. She also draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and actions. When life has involved loss or attachment wounds, she brings attachment-based ideas to the work.
Her background as an LCSW means she has seven years of experience supporting people through transitions and complex struggles. She has worked with a wide range of issues including ADHD, compassion fatigue, body image, chronic illness, and adoption or foster care questions. Heidi pays attention to both immediate coping skills and longer-term patterns that keep problems repeating.
In sessions clients can expect respectful, down-to-earth conversation and clear practical suggestions. Heidi aims to tailor the pace and focus to each person’s goals. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where both people decide what progress looks like.
Heidi practices from Montana and works in English. She offers multiple remote session formats so people can choose whichever fits their schedule and lifestyle best.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking actions that fit those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns in closeness and trust, and it can be helpful when healing from loss or attachment wounds.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Heidi will listen to your goals and try different methods as needed. She collaborates with each person to decide what feels most useful, and adjusts the plan as progress or needs change.
Online sessions make it possible to connect by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and text are helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or scheduling. These options allow flexibility to fit therapy into work, family, or medical routines and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English