About Heidi
Heidi Whyte is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Sessions aim to pin down what is hardest right now and build skills for moving forward.
She draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort.
Background and approach
Heidi emphasizes respect, empathy, and a strengths-based stance in every conversation. With seven years of experience, Heidi has supported people through trauma, relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, career transitions, and addiction concerns. She also works with issues around self-esteem, intimacy, sleeping and eating struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes work with people affected by abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. In practice Heidi uses tools from attachment-based work and dialectical behavior therapy when they fit the situation. She balances practical coping skills with attention to life patterns and values.
Treatment plans are adapted over time as needs and goals change. Heidi sees clients in Montana and provides sessions in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s availability.
How Heidi’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and change behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current connections, which can help when relationship stress, intimacy concerns, or attachment wounds are present.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Heidi will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then use techniques that fit their needs. Sessions are collaborative so plans are adjusted as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy lets people access these methods by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and skill practice, while phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, homework prompts, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, parenting, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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