Scott Heider, LCSW

Scott Heider is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and life changes. He offers straightforward support for relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar mood concerns. Sessions emphasize practical steps people can use between meetings.

Scott draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and a client-centered stance. He focuses on clear tools for coping, mood management, and communication. Work is collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to values and everyday routines.

Scott’s background includes service as an Army veteran and experience as a firefighter. Those roles inform his understanding of stress, trauma, and the demands of caregiving or high-pressure work. He brings a steady, down-to-earth style and an interest in helping people reconnect with purpose.

In sessions he listens first and then offers practical strategies that fit daily life. He helps people practice new habits, improve how they talk about hard topics, and reduce behaviors that cause problems. Progress is tracked in plain terms so people know what’s changing.

Scott sees clients in New York and works in English. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Scott uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior that feed anxiety, depression, and poor coping. CBT focuses on small, concrete experiments and skills people can practice between sessions to see real change.

He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT teaches simple mindfulness and action-focused strategies to move forward despite hard thoughts or emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Scott treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and pace. That choice is adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or flexible timing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care around work, caregiving, or travel.