About Heidy
Heidy Castaneda is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, life changes, and ADHD-related challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida.
Background and approach
Her style aims to be warm and straightforward so people can talk about what matters most without feeling overwhelmed. She offers a faith-informed perspective when clients want it, while keeping the work collaborative and practical.
Sessions often focus on building resilience, learning clearer ways to communicate, and finding steps toward healthier daily routines. Heidy helps people name patterns that cause pain and try small changes that reduce stress over time.
Her clinical work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support recovery from trauma and to address workplace stress, attachment concerns, body image, and codependency. Heidy pays attention to family of origin issues, infidelity, divorce and separation, and men's and women's life transitions.
She helps clients explore life purpose and repair communication problems that hurt relationships. With four years of experience as an LMFT, she aims to meet people where they are and build practical skills together.
Many clients focus on coping strategies, emotional regulation, and improving day-to-day functioning. Heidy emphasizes clear goals and follow-up so progress is visible.
People seeking help can expect a compassionate, goal-oriented approach that blends discussion with actionable steps. The work is paced to each person’s needs and rooted in what they value most.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Heidy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. One approach focuses on trauma recovery and post-traumatic stress by helping people process past events in manageable steps and learn emotion regulation skills that reduce reactivity. Another approach targets anxiety and stress by teaching coping strategies, breathing and grounding practices, and problem-focused planning to lower daily overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Heidy works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adapts techniques as progress is made. That collaborative process helps ensure the work fits how someone prefers to engage and what they hope to change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility. Video is useful for longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish