About Heidi
Heidi Dijak is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and life changes. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while clients begin to name what feels hard. Her approach aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who may be worried or unsure.
With 35 years of professional experience, Heidi adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She focuses on practical skills for managing strong emotions, handling urges tied to substance or process addictions, and rebuilding confidence.
Background and approach
Sessions are described in everyday terms so people know what to expect. Heidi uses a mix of methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her help people change unhelpful thinking, notice automatic reactions, and try different behaviors between sessions.
She also draws on techniques that target intense emotions and relationship patterns when they come up. People who have struggled with codependency, family problems, control issues, guilt, isolation, or mood concerns may find her approach useful. She brings patience and sensitivity to multicultural concerns and to issues that affect men specifically.
Heidi practices in Michigan and offers services in English. She tailors the pace and tools to each person, and she encourages small, steady steps toward the goals clients set together.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a cooperative relationship, so the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them set their own goals. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, stress, phobias, and many forms of addiction because it includes concrete skills to practice between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for tolerating distress and regulating intense emotions. It is often used when impulsivity, anger, or intense mood swings create repeated problems in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most helpful and which to adjust over time.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls work well for longer conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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