Scott Heider
Compassionate, practical help for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Scott
Scott Heider is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience in New York. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and major life changes. He also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and ADHD.
His background includes work with compassion fatigue and coaching around coping and resilience. He keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens first, then helps clients set small, clear goals.
Background and approach
Scott uses common-sense skills and conversation to make changes feel doable. The tone is direct but caring, and sessions aim to leave people with steps they can use right away. Scott draws on several psychological approaches to shape treatment.
He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and accept difficult feelings. He applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. He also brings client-centered and dialectical skills to build understanding and emotional balance.
His practice addresses a wide range of additional concerns, such as blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and domestic violence. He mentions experience with issues around aging, cancer, and separation. Those topics are woven into how he plans practical next steps with each person.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Scott combines lived experience with clinical training to guide people who want workable changes in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Scott commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts while clarifying what matters to them and taking small steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.He approaches treatment collaboratively. The right approach is found together by talking about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. That shared decision helps shape which techniques are emphasized and what homework or practice will be useful between sessions.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These formats let people keep up with therapy around work, parenting, and other responsibilities. They also make it easier to try short skills practice, quick check-ins, or full sessions without traveling to an office.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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