About Heidi
Heidi Skattebo is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for someone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. Heidi aims to make starting therapy easier by listening first and building trust at a comfortable pace.
She draws on four years of clinical experience to address low mood, self-esteem concerns, and motivation struggles. Heidi often helps people navigate life changes, grief, and the strain of relationship or family problems.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and patterns like codependency or compulsive behaviors. In sessions she encourages plain talk about what’s happening now and practical steps forward. Conversations focus on small, doable changes that can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
She works with each person to set realistic goals and track progress over time. Heidi practices as an LPC and an LPCC, which means she holds professional counseling credentials in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. Her approach favors straightforward, evidence-based techniques rather than jargon-filled explanations.
She communicates clearly about options and involves clients in planning their next steps. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which makes it possible to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and costs vary by location and therapist availability.
How evidence-based methods and online sessions fit together
Heidi uses clear, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present problems and practical change. One common approach she uses helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step coping strategies and behavior changes. Another approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new, balanced ways of thinking to reduce low mood and boost confidence.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heidi works with each person to weigh options, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. She invites questions and tailors the plan to a person's goals, pace, and day-to-day demands.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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