About Heidi
Heidi Dijak helps people who are stressed, anxious, or struggling with addiction find steady ground. She introduces simple steps to manage strong emotions, improve self-esteem, and handle life changes. Heidi is a licensed social worker with 35 years of experience and works from Michigan.
She uses a straightforward, respectful approach and adjusts conversations to fit each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical tools for anger, impulse control, and motivation. Heidi also addresses issues like communication problems, codependency, and isolation.
How Heidi works
Her methods draw from client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness. That means listening carefully, testing small changes, and noticing thoughts and feelings without judgment. These techniques can help with anxiety, mood problems, phobias, and process or substance addictions.
Heidi pays attention to cultural differences and the role they play in daily life and relationships. She works with concerns such as guilt, shame, paranoia, and certain personality challenges by building skills and clearer thinking patterns. The goal is more calm, clearer choices, and better day-to-day functioning.
Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Heidi helps set practical goals and adjusts pace based on how someone responds. Her long experience means she is used to adapting plans when life shifts or new challenges appear.
Heidi lists 8 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Heidi's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps clarify goals so sessions feel relevant and respectful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses clear steps and exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits useful for anxiety, mood issues, and addiction patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. Those skills can help with impulsivity, anger, and intense mood swings by offering practical practices to use between sessions.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. Heidi will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend which approaches to try. She treats this as a collaborative process and adjusts methods as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues, phone calls work with lower bandwidth, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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