About Carmen
Carmen Heidecke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She speaks English and German and offers online sessions for people who prefer remote options. Her style aims to help clients notice what gets in the way and take small, practical steps forward.
Carmen focuses on identifying beliefs and habits that contribute to overwhelm and low mood. She uses straightforward conversation and reflective listening to help people see patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and attention to emotional and relational themes. Her background includes eight years working as a counselor with a range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, bipolar issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses control issues, dissociation, guilt and shame, and obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
This breadth makes her comfortable supporting people facing complex or intersecting struggles. In sessions she blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives. That means she pays attention to how past relationships affect present feelings while keeping the client's goals central.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness tools are used when people want practical ways to change habits and manage strong emotions. Carmen frames therapy as a process of finding your why and letting go of limiting beliefs. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People who want a thoughtful, exploratory approach with actionable steps may find her a good fit.
How Carmen’s Approaches Translate Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust. Online sessions can use this approach to make sense of relationship-triggered anxiety and to practice new ways of relating.Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead, offering empathy and reflection rather than directives. That style is useful for people who need a calm, accepting space to sort through grief, burnout, or identity concerns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches short practices to notice the body and the breath, and to step back from automatic thoughts. These techniques are often used in-session and as brief exercises between meetings to reduce anxiety and overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can shift as progress is made or new issues emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging works well for quick check-ins or when writing helps processing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English, German
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