About Heidi
Heidi Herrick-Lynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from New Jersey. She brings 27 years of counseling experience to sessions and focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and changes in relationships. Her style is warm and client-centered, and she aims to make therapy a practical part of life.
She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered for managing strong emotions and building coping strategies. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding and keeping momentum for change. Heidi has worked across different settings over many years, helping people with grief, trauma, self-esteem, parenting strain, and intimacy-related concerns.
She also has experience addressing obsessions, compulsions, and issues in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled to fit weekday evenings and weekends. Her approach is practical and collaborative.
Heidi focuses on clear steps, homework when it helps, and measuring small changes over time. She invites people who are nervous or unsure to try a first session and see how the process feels. People choose her when they want a steady, experienced counselor who listens and helps turn worry into manageable action.
She explains options, respects each person's pace, and adapts tools to what actually works for the individual.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Heidi often uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's goals and pace while the therapist listens and reflects. This approach helps people feel heard and decide what to work on first.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, sleep problems, and managing mood by breaking problems into small steps.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are offered to help manage intense emotions, increase distress tolerance, and improve interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are useful when strong feelings interfere with daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process makes sessions more focused and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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