About Heidi
Heidi Brown Stratton is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Missouri. She brings six years of social work experience across women’s health, alternative sentencing, and hospice into her clinical work. Heidi approaches each person with respect and sensitivity.
She tailors conversations and care to what the individual needs most. Her background includes connections to the special needs and LGBTQ+ communities. That experience informs how she talks about identity, intimacy, and sexual health.
How Heidi works
Heidi offers support for stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also addresses struggles with self-esteem, parenting strain, career decisions, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas she focuses on include kink and alternative sex culture, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, fertility and pregnancy concerns, and body image.
She also works with people dealing with post-traumatic stress, isolation or loneliness, and seasonal mood shifts like SAD. Men’s issues, dependent personality patterns, and sex-related problems such as sexual dysfunction or sex addiction are part of her practice too. Heidi uses conversational, client-centered methods and draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change.
She also uses narrative approaches to reframe stories about identity and life, and Internal Family Systems ideas to untangle conflicting parts of the self. Sessions are adapted to each person’s pace and goals. She views starting therapy as a brave step and aims to make that step practical and manageable.
Heidi focuses on clear goals, honest conversation, and steady support as people work toward a more satisfying life.
Heidi lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Heidi works with
The areas below are the ones Heidi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Heidi uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions about the person in front of her. That approach means listening carefully, reflecting what she hears, and helping people set their own goals. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she leans on to help people find their reasons to change and to build commitment at a comfortable pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Heidi will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From there she will suggest ways of working and adjust methods as progress is made, keeping the plan collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling busy schedules or distance. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when video is not possible, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, coordinate with childcare, or keep a brief weekly check-in without commuting.
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