About Heidi
Heidi Hanusa is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of experience. She focuses on common problems such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. Heidi aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
She listens carefully and adapts conversations to fit each person's situation. Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce overwhelming feelings and rebuild motivation. Heidi supports people working through trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Her work also attends to life transitions like career changes, divorce, and caregiver stress. She helps people cope after natural or human-caused disasters and with complex mood concerns including bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Heidi pays attention to attachment, abandonment, and adoption or foster care histories when they influence current struggles.
Heidi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide care and tailors the approach to each person's goals. She brings a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate stance to sessions. The pace and focus are adjusted so progress feels realistic and achievable.
Heidi practices in Nevada as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. She works with people who want steady support for day-to-day coping and longer-term healing.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Heidi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical work. One approach she often applies helps people learn coping and self-calming skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress in daily life. This involves short exercises, breath work, and step-by-step behavior changes to lower reactivity and build confidence. Another common strand of her work addresses trauma and attachment issues by helping people tell their story at a steady pace, notice how past hurt affects current relationships, and practice new ways of relating and setting boundaries.Choosing the right approach happens together. Heidi will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adjusts methods over time so sessions stay relevant and move toward the client’s priorities.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and do longer conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text work well for quick check-ins, ongoing processing, or when typing feels easier than talking. Together these options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work steady and focused.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
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