About Heidi
Heidi Shock is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with 14 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence to help people talk about the issues that feel overwhelming. Heidi focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can move forward at their own pace.
Her work spans a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and bipolar mood challenges.
How Heidi works
She also helps people facing intimacy and relationship struggles, parenting strain, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care questions, attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness and pain, and coping after disasters. Heidi uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space.
She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense emotions. Mindfulness techniques and Emotionally-Focused Therapy tools are used when helpful to increase awareness and improve emotional connection. Her background includes work with high-risk clients in the criminal justice system and clinical training from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
Heidi combines experience with straightforward methods to make therapy feel usable for daily life. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| 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 Care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals first and starts by listening deeply to what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and respected while deciding what to work on next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Heidi works with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That process is collaborative, with goals reviewed and adjusted over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper connection, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is helpful for shorter, frequent contact and between-session check-ins. These options help people fit therapy around work, family, or travel while still accessing licensed professionals and therapeutic skills.
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