Heidi Whyte, LCSW
Montana · 7 years in practice
Heidi Whyte is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Montana
- BBH-LCSW-LIC-50611 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1154083681 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Heidi
Heidi Whyte is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She brings a calm, practical approach and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. Many people come for help with relationships, parenting strains, addiction concerns, sleep or eating struggles, and career pressure.
Heidi uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She draws on existential ideas about meaning and choice to help people name what matters to them.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and support new actions. Her work is grounded in a person-centered stance that values each person's experience. Attachment-based thinking helps when relational wounds affect daily life.
Sessions are informed by trauma-aware practice and focus on strengths and realistic steps forward. Heidi has seven years of clinical experience and holds the credential LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She practices in Montana and conducts sessions in English.
People can expect a collaborative process that balances listening with concrete tools and homework when useful. She supports clients through a wide range of concerns including bipolar and depressive symptoms, ADHD, compassion fatigue, abandonment issues, chronic illness, and recovery from trauma. Heidi aims to help people build clearer direction, steadier coping, and better day-to-day functioning.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Heidi lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Heidi names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that fit online therapy and everyday life
Existential therapy helps people explore what matters to them and make choices that align with their values. It often focuses on meaning, responsibility, and how to live with uncertainty, which can be helpful during major life transitions or when someone feels disconnected.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical skills for accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match personal values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and chronic stress because it emphasizes small behavior changes tied to what the person cares about.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and shift ways of relating that cause pain. It can be especially useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and relationship patterns that repeat over time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify what feels most useful based on needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions often begin by trying a few methods and adjusting as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation from different places, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options add flexibility and make it easier to fit work on healing into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Heidi commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and trauma-related difficulties.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She blends existential reflection with practical strategies from ACT and CBT to help people make changes that fit their values.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns and life stressors.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the credential LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and practices in Montana.
In what languages are sessions offered and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are offered?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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