Heidi Skattebo
Calm practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heidi
Heidi Skattebo is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings. Heidi encourages small steps and practical changes so people can feel a little better between sessions.
She holds professional licenses as LPC and LPCC and practices from Wisconsin. Heidi draws on four years of counseling experience to help clients navigate life transitions and cope with setbacks.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on listening closely, identifying what’s getting in the way, and creating concrete strategies to try at home. She supports people working through grief, trauma, relationship strains, addiction concerns, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar symptoms. Sessions include collaborative problem solving, skill building, and checking what is and isn’t helping.
Her work also addresses issues tied to family and parenting, including communication problems, adoption and foster care topics, and separation or divorce stress. Heidi pays attention to how stress shows up in daily routines and offers ways to reduce overwhelm. She helps clients rehearse conversations, set boundaries, and build manageable coping plans.
Heidi meets in formats that fit busy lives, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She guides clients through small, concrete steps and adapts plans based on what works. For many people, that steady, practical focus helps create clearer choices and calmer days.
If someone is ready to begin, Heidi asks them to share their goals so the early sessions can focus on the most pressing problems. She works in English and holds licenses in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Heidi uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and replace them with more balanced thinking. This method is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress that comes from repetitive negative thinking.She also emphasizes skill-building strategies that teach concrete coping tools. Those skills include relaxation exercises, problem-solving steps, and ways to manage strong emotions so daily life feels more manageable. This approach often helps with anger, impulsivity, addiction concerns, and overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Heidi works collaboratively to figure out which techniques best match a person’s goals, preferences, and current challenges. Early sessions focus on practical priorities and try small experiments to see what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls approximate an in-person visit, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging let people connect when schedules or energy levels make video difficult. These options make it easier to keep momentum, practice new skills between meetings, and receive support in a format that fits daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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