About Heidi
Heidi Whyte is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Montana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and grief. She works with clients on common life problems like sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, career setbacks, and coping with big life changes. Heidi aims to make therapy approachable and practical for people feeling stuck.
She draws on a mix of approaches to meet people where they are.
How Heidi works
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small steps that create real change. Heidi uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice patterns, manage difficult feelings, and build more workable habits. Attachment-based ideas guide her work around intimacy, abandonment, and attachment concerns.
She pays attention to how relationship history affects current behavior and helps clients learn new ways to connect and set boundaries. Heidi also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and pace in therapy. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and issues related to identity and kink.
Heidi has seven years of clinical experience and adapts her approach to each person’s unique needs. She aims to create clear plans and measurable steps toward recovery and growth. Getting started involves a short intake to match goals and plan sessions that fit the client’s schedule.
Heidi focuses on collaboration, respectful listening, and practical tools to help clients move toward more stable, fulfilling days.
Heidi lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
How Heidi’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It emphasizes values-based action so clients can take small, meaningful steps even when emotions are difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It often includes simple exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current connections and helps people learn new ways to relate, which can be useful for intimacy, abandonment, and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Heidi works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She respects a client’s pace and adjusts tools over time if something isn’t working well.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues to build rapport while keeping the appointment convenient. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for flexible, low-barrier touchpoints and can be useful for brief coaching, between-session support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still using the therapist's chosen approaches.
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