About Heather
Heather Sheidler is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She brings 16 years of experience in mental health to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related struggles. Heather speaks in plain terms and helps clients build skills they can use in everyday life.
Heather has worked in residential and outpatient community mental health settings. She most often helps people dealing with anxiety, family or relationship conflict, life transitions, and complex trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing depression, mood or anger problems, parenting stress, and substance or behavioral addictions. Her approach blends practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy with client-centered listening and tools from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing. Sessions aim to identify small, useful steps clients can try between meetings.
Heather encourages clear goals and steady skill practice rather than long lectures. She believes people already have strengths to build on and that therapy is a collaborative process. Conversations are shaped to match each person's needs and pace.
Heather often focuses on teaching coping skills, handling panic or intense emotion, and improving communication patterns. For those coping with grief, attachment concerns, impulse control, or life purpose questions, Heather offers straightforward strategies and gentle guidance. She works with clients to create realistic plans and to practice skills that reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, choose what matters most, and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then practicing alternatives; it often helps with panic, depression, and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that are useful when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heather partners with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She tailors sessions so clients can try techniques, give feedback, and adjust plans based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, homework check-ins, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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