About Heidi
Heidi Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with adults on issues like parenting, family conflict, grief, addiction, and intimacy-related struggles.
Background and approach
Heidi brings 12 years of clinical experience in Arizona and aims to create a respectful, compassionate space for each person she meets. She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to the client.
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as emotional understanding. Heidi adapts the plan to each person rather than using one fixed approach.
Her work draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. That mix helps people manage overwhelming feelings, strengthen important bonds, and clarify personal values.
Heidi also incorporates skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when useful. Over a dozen years of practice have given her experience with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress, and career difficulties.
She also supports people dealing with adoption or foster care matters, aging and geriatric concerns, and issues common to first responders. Heidi aims to partner with clients to set clear goals and to track small steps toward them.
She explains options in plain language and adjusts strategies as needs change. The result is a practical and flexible path forward tailored to each person's life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Heidi uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at close relationships and how patterns of connection affect emotions and behavior. That approach is helpful for improving communication and emotional bonds.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heidi talks with each person about goals and preferences and then recommends one or more approaches to try. Decisions are collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps the individual make progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction; phone calls work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers typed communication. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to maintain continuity of care across changing circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English