About Scott
Scott Heider is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 15 years of practice helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and major life changes. He supports people managing depression, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, anger, and issues related to ADHD or bipolar mood concerns.
His style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day. Heider combines several proven methods to match each person’s needs.
How Scott works
He uses client-centered listening to understand where someone is starting from. He then draws on cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and emotion-focused techniques to improve how people connect and regulate feelings. Clients can expect practical strategies alongside chances to talk through their past and present.
Sessions often include skill practice, behavior planning, and moments of reflection. The therapist emphasizes clear goals and measurable steps toward them. Heider’s background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, addiction, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and life-stage transitions.
His experience also reflects time in military service and firefighting, which shaped his understanding of crisis, loss, and workplace stress. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. He works in English and provides care from his New York practice.
Scott lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Scott works with
The areas below are the ones Scott selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How his approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help when someone feels stuck by worry, depression, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, offering clear exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change harmful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong emotions so they can improve how they relate to themselves and others; it is useful for intimacy-related struggles and processing grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, daily challenges, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat or text work well for brief check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and to bring what is learned into real-world routines.
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