About Heidi
Heidi Hanusa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and mood challenges. She also supports concerns like self-esteem, career questions, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and the strain of parenting. Heidi works with clients who face ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a range of life changes.
Heidi keeps therapy straightforward and respectful. She listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
How Heidi works
Then she tailors conversations and goals so sessions feel practical and focused. The intent is to make progress that fits a client’s life and schedule. Her practice includes attention to attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and the impacts of abandonment.
Heidi also addresses blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She has experience with substance use and with disruptive emotional conditions such as bipolar disorder and DMDD. With 23 years of professional experience, Heidi brings steady clinical judgment to each session.
She aims to be sensitive and compassionate while helping people build coping skills. Her approach balances understanding past hurts with creating workable changes for today. Clients can expect a collaborative process.
Heidi helps identify clear steps, practices, and ways to measure progress. Starting therapy is often hard, and she focuses on making that first step feel supported and manageable.
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Heidi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people process trauma and reduce symptoms by talking through difficult memories and building coping skills. This method is useful for trauma, abuse, and dissociation concerns. Another common approach focuses on mood and behavior regulation. It teaches skills for managing anxiety, depression, bipolar swings, and intense emotions like anger. Clients practice specific strategies during sessions and apply them between meetings to notice real change. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Heidi collaborates with each person to identify what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time and checks in to see what is most helpful. Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations when travel is difficult. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is not practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or stepping through a difficult moment between sessions. These formats help make regular care easier to fit into busy lives.Start online instead of waiting
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