About Heidi
Heidi Galeone uses a blend of practical therapies to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in New Jersey with ten years of experience. Heidi aims to build a respectful, collaborative relationship where goals are clear and realistic.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change troubling thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are introduced to manage stress and build present-moment coping skills.
How Heidi works
Trauma-focused work is used when past hurt continues to affect day-to-day life. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to fit their situation. Heidi emphasizes open communication and equips people with concrete skills they can use between sessions.
She supports people dealing with grief, postpartum mood changes, body image and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Heidi also addresses relationship and family-related problems by focusing on communication patterns and problem-solving. She helps people manage control issues, guilt and shame, isolation, and mood disorders.
Practical tools and short-term goals are part of her approach when that fits someone’s needs. Over her ten years of practice Heidi has worked with a range of life changes, including pregnancy and childbirth stress, sexual assault and abuse recovery, and substance-related struggles.
She invites people to take the first step, complete a short matching process, and begin scheduling sessions to get help suited to their circumstances.
Heidi lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Heidi often integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events continue to affect daily life. That work gently addresses traumatic memories and their impact while teaching coping strategies to manage distress. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then shape sessions together with the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is easier to arrange. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across locations.
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A practical next step
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