About Heidi
Heidi Hadlock-Evans is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Idaho who brings 13 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and the strain that comes with life transitions.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to tailor conversation and plans to each person's needs. She often works with adults facing family conflict and people who need practical ways to cope with change.
Heidi listens closely to what matters most and helps clients build simple, usable tools for daily life. Sessions move at a pace that fits the person in front of her.
Heidi uses clear, straightforward methods to address problems such as chronic pain, mood disorders, panic attacks, and obsessive behaviors. She also supports people navigating immigration issues, gender dysphoria concerns, and end-of-life questions.
Communication difficulties and feelings of isolation are common topics she helps people talk through. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
That mix allows for both understanding a person's story and practicing new behaviors between sessions. Heidi emphasizes real-world skills that can reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
She aims to make each session practical and focused. People who want respectful listening along with actionable steps often find her approach helpful.
Heidi encourages small steps that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Heidi blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies to support people in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients can explore what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical strategies to change behaviors and reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heidi will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan over time based on what’s working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick support, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different ways of working until they find what feels right.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English