About Heidi
Heidi Summers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. She also supports people facing relationship and parenting concerns, low self-esteem, mood concerns, ADHD, and career uncertainty.
She approaches work in a warm, accepting way. Sessions focus on listening first, then finding small, practical steps that fit each person's life.
Background and approach
Heidi draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Her background includes long experience with trauma, domestic violence survivors, and people grieving significant losses. She has worked in both individual and group settings and has helped people manage intense emotions and relational wounds.
That history informs how she responds with calm and steady support. In sessions she uses a mix of solution-focused techniques and trauma-informed tools to set clear goals and move toward them. Conversations are aimed at what matters most now - improving coping, reducing anxious thinking, and repairing relationship patterns.
Practical homework and communication skills often follow the work done in session. Heidi lives and practices in California. She keeps the tone of sessions straightforward and caring, helping people break problems into manageable steps.
Many clients come for relief from anxiety and find useful, practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
How Heidi’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Heidi often uses client-centered therapy which emphasizes listening, respect, and the client's own goals. This approach helps people feel heard and guides sessions toward what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear, practical exercises that can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together. Heidi will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust as progress is made. The process is flexible and shaped by the client's needs and preferences rather than a fixed plan.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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