Heidi Hanusa
Supportive licensed marriage and family therapist
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heidi
Heidi Hanusa is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, mood disorders, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Her approach is calm and respectful, and she aims to create a space where clients feel heard and understood.
Heidi adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs. She talks plainly and works with clients to set practical goals.
Background and approach
She emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while guiding people through difficult moments. In session she works on concrete skills for coping, emotional regulation, and rebuilding confidence. She also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related problems, parenting questions, and substance use challenges when they come up.
Treatment emphasizes real-world steps clients can try between sessions. Heidi holds the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT, and practices in Nevada. Over two decades of work have given her a broad background across many concerns, including trauma recovery, bipolar and depressive conditions, ADHD, and grief-related needs.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability. Heidi aims to support each person as they take the first steps toward change.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Support
Heidi uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skills for managing stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and problem-solving strategies that people can use between sessions to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on trauma-informed work, helping people process difficult events at a steady pace while building safety and coping skills. Both approaches aim to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Heidi works with each person to identify their goals and preferences, then adjusts techniques as needed. The plan evolves based on what helps most, and clients are encouraged to give feedback so therapy stays relevant and helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Sessions can take place over video calls or by phone when face-to-face time is difficult. For ongoing check-ins or quick support, live chat and text-based messaging are available. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Heidi
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point