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Heidi Long, LMFT

  • Experience12 years
  • LocationArizona
  • Focus areasLGBT, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Heidi

Heidi Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Arizona who offers collaborative, compassionate care for people navigating relationship challenges, family conflict, parenting concerns, and identity-related stressors.

Background and approach

With 12 years of experience, she focuses on helping clients manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, attention-related difficulties, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Heidi emphasizes respectful, sensitive engagement and works to understand each person’s unique story before shaping a treatment plan.

Her approach is individualized and strength-based, blending evidence-informed methods to match what each client needs. Sessions are tailored to address practical coping skills, communication patterns, and deeper attachment or life-stage concerns when appropriate.

Heidi aims to support and empower clients as they make changes, recognizing that seeking therapy is a courageous step toward a more satisfying life. Clients can expect a therapist who listens closely, adapts interventions to fit their circumstances, and partners with them to set achievable goals.

Heidi’s Arizona practice integrates relational and skill-focused strategies to help people move toward healthier functioning and greater emotional balance.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that adapt to your needs

Internal Family Systems (IFS) views the mind as made up of different parts that hold feelings and roles; therapy helps people identify, understand, and compassionately relate to these parts to reduce internal conflict and promote healing. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values, building psychological flexibility, and learning to accept difficult thoughts while taking committed action toward meaningful goals. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people reshape expectations and communication to create more stable bonds.

Deciding on the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and may blend elements from different models to find a fit that feels practical and respectful of each person’s experience. This allows treatment to evolve as goals change or new priorities emerge.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when life is unpredictable. These options support ongoing work on emotion regulation, relationship patterns, trauma recovery, and skill building without requiring travel, and they let licensed professionals meet clients where they are in a way that suits individual routines and availability.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Heidi commonly address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family conflict, LGBT-related issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, self-esteem, and career-related stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is collaborative and tailored, combining relational work with practical skills training to address both emotional patterns and everyday coping needs.
What is Heidi's professional background?
She has 12 years of clinical experience working with individuals and families across a variety of concerns and settings.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is an LMFT licensed in Arizona with license number AZ LMFT LMFT-15585 and practices from Arizona.
In which language can sessions be held and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for online work?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and availability.
How is cost handled for therapy with this clinician?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsParenting issuesADHD

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCommitment issuesCommunication problemsCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Divorce and separationFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFirst responder issuesGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersPersonality disordersPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodJungian TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

12+ years

Licensed

Arizona

Languages

English