Heidi Wendenburg
Support for parenting and family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Heidi
Heidi Wendenburg is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of emotional and behavioral issues. She speaks plainly with clients and helps parents and adults find practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, depression, and relationship problems.
Heidi works in Texas and draws on five years of clinical experience to guide conversations and plan next steps. She began her career in an adult acute psychiatric facility.
Background and approach
That early work led to roles in residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization programs for eating disorders. Those settings included care for both adolescents and adults and deepened her experience with eating and food-related issues. Heidi has also worked across the continuum of care in substance abuse and addiction programs, including detox and partial hospitalization.
More recently she worked in a group practice setting where she supported people dealing with trauma, abuse, depression, self-esteem concerns, and adjustment to major life changes. Her clinical toolbox includes client-centered therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.
She describes her overall style as eclectic and adapts methods to fit each person’s situation rather than following a single script. Heidi is comfortable working with adolescents ages 12 and up and with adults up to age 65. She emphasizes steady effort and small steps, reminding people that continuing to try can open a path forward.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps when worries, low mood, or eating struggles get in the way of living the life someone wants. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate and trust others. It can be useful for parenting concerns and attachment issues within families.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Heidi will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals and preferences. She often blends methods rather than using only one, and she checks in to see what is helping and what needs to change as therapy progresses.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options give flexibility for busy families and people who need to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules. Remote sessions make it easier to continue care after a crisis, keep regular check-ins, and practice tools between meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Heidi
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point