About Heidi
Dr. Heidi Duong helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps to reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aiming to find concrete changes that fit a person's life. She starts by listening to what feels most off in someones life. Then she and the client map out small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on habits, relationships, and self-talk so people can regain a sense of control and purpose. Dr. Duong uses a mix of approaches that match each persons needs.
She draws on work from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to change unhelpful thinking and to clarify values. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered techniques guide conversations about relationships and emotional experience. Across seven years in practice she has helped people untangle patterns that keep them stuck.
Her Washington LMHC credential (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) indicates her licensure status; she also holds an LMHC credential listed for Iowa. She offers sessions in English. Her approach balances practical skills with attention to meaning and connection.
People who come to her can expect clear suggestions, chances to practice new ways of coping, and ongoing discussion about what is and is not working. The goal is more steady mood, clearer choices, and more satisfying daily life.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your schedule
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and depression because it pairs values clarification with practical steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking patterns and tests them with new behaviors to reduce worry and mood symptoms. It often includes simple exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, which can help when issues involve attachment, abandonment, or trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. That collaborative process means strategies can be adjusted over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets you read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflection between meetings. These options help people keep therapy going even with busy schedules or limited travel time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace 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
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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