About Hedlun
Hedlun Walton is a Michigan licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 26 years of practice. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing life changes. He also supports those dealing with relationship strain, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and attention challenges like ADHD.
He uses a calm, practical style in sessions. Hedlun listens without judgment and offers clear steps when change is needed. He mixes patient, client-centered listening with focused strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters to each person. Hedlun works with clients to set realistic goals and build small, achievable habits. He will suggest ways to rethink unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors between meetings.
He often helps people with family-of-origin issues, blended family dynamics, and communication or control problems. He also addresses concerns such as fatherhood, first responder stress, grief and hospice-related matters, hoarding, gender dysphoria topics, and money or purpose questions. Hedlun favors a direct but respectful tone and will use humor when it helps.
He invites clients to test new perspectives and notice different choices. If someone is ready to take a first step, he offers a steady presence and practical guidance.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so you can explore feelings and decide what matters most. This approach helps when people need a calm, steady place to make sense of things.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes finding and testing unhelpful thoughts and shifting small behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises and tools to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend client-centered listening, CBT strategies, or solution-focused steps as fits the situation. That plan can change as needs and progress become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you talk face-to-face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can help keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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