About Heidi
Heidi Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing relationship stress, parenting strains, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She works with clients who are navigating LGBT-related concerns, addiction, trauma, and challenges like sleep or eating problems. Her tone is respectful and down-to-earth.
She focuses on practical steps and steady support rather than jargon. She brings 12 years of experience to sessions and tailors conversations to each person's needs.
How Heidi works
Heidi listens first, then helps identify small, manageable changes that fit daily life. She blends approaches that aim to build emotional awareness, improve communication, and strengthen coping skills. Her method includes acceptance-based tools to reduce unhelpful struggle and increase values-driven action.
Attachment-focused work helps people understand relational patterns and repair ways of connecting. She also uses client-centered and emotion-focused techniques to validate feelings and guide problem solving. Heidi offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are intended to be practical and goal-oriented, with options for brief check-ins or longer conversations depending on what someone needs. People who prefer a collaborative, steady approach may find her style a good match. She aims to create a respectful space where clients feel heard and can practice new ways of coping.
The work emphasizes small steps that add up to clearer choices and healthier relationships.
Heidi lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and then take small, values-driven actions. It often suits those dealing with anxiety, depression, or life change who want practical steps to move forward. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns shape present relationships and focuses on improving connection and repair. This approach can help when communication patterns or trust issues get in the way of closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize acceptance exercises, attachment work, emotion-focused conversation, or other strategies as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, skill practice between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, offer flexibility for follow-ups, and provide multiple ways to keep momentum between longer meetings.
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