About Heidi
Heidi Steinert offers a warm, collaborative therapy style that centers the person's own goals. She is a LICSW - a clinical social worker with a Master of Arts in Social Work - and draws on approaches that put the client's experience first. Heidi is based in Massachusetts and speaks English.
She helps people who are coping with depression, anxiety, stress, and mood concerns like bipolar disorder. Heidi also focuses on relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and fatherhood challenges, career stress, and life transitions.
How Heidi works
Common practical problems she addresses include sleeping difficulties, workplace issues, financial stress, and postpartum depression. Her approach is interactive and respectful. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person sitting in the room.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to look at patterns in close relationships and improve connection and communication. Heidi also incorporates mindfulness to build present-moment awareness and solution-focused techniques to set concrete goals and small steps forward. Sessions are geared toward helping people find clarity, reduce shame and guilt, and rebuild energy for daily life.
She emphasizes collaboration: clients and the therapist decide together what to try and when to change course. Heidi avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on practical change and personal insight. If someone is ready to explore change, she offers supportive guidance and coaching to help move toward a more satisfying life.
Heidi lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to each person; online sessions use that same attention to help clarify goals and priorities. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns of feeling and interaction in close relationships and can help people recognize and change those patterns through guided conversation. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past, and then they will choose or combine methods collaboratively. Adjustments are made over time if something isn’t working. Online formats offer practical benefits for people juggling busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into breaks or when being on camera isn’t desired. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, thought tracking, and coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent weekly work, try short focused interventions, and follow a plan even when schedules are tight.Start online instead of waiting
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A practical next step
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