Heidi Hardman

Heidi Hardman, LICSW, provides therapy for people who are not necessarily looking to be “fixed,” but want support in living with difficult experiences, emotions, and seasons of stress. Her work often begins when someone has been carrying anxiety, self-criticism, depression, trauma-related concerns, or relationship strain for a long time and is ready to understand what is happening beneath the surface. She helps clients explore long-standing beliefs, patterns, and emotional responses that may have once been protective but no longer fit their lives today, with an emphasis on building insight, flexibility, and steadier ways of coping in an ever-changing environment.

Her clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, trauma, sexual abuse, PTSD, and broader mental health concerns. She approaches therapy with the view that emotional experiences are valid, while also working collaboratively to explore whether those emotions match what is happening in the present. The goal is to help clients recognize strengths, improve day-to-day functioning, and support overall wellbeing.

Heidi works with individuals, children, and families. She maintains an ongoing focus on safety assessment, including screening for suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors, and other risk factors. Her primary orientation is trauma-focused, and she integrates multiple approaches such as CBT (a skills-based therapy that focuses on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors), family therapy, client-centered therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and individual therapy so care can be tailored to each person’s needs.

She is a Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker and has been licensed since 1996. Her background includes work with Veterans preparing for or returning from deployment, children and families in foster care and home-preservation programs, parents working toward reunification, adolescents, therapeutic youth, and individuals with substance-use disorders. She is also professionally trained in Trauma Systems Therapy and brings experience across diverse populations and service settings.