- Person-centered approach
- CBT techniques
- Support for parents
About Chelsea
Chelsea Heller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, family conflict, or life changes. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to create a space where a person can talk through struggles and figure out next steps at their own pace.
Before moving into school-based work, Chelsea spent nine years as a social worker with Child Protective Services. That role focused on foster care and adoption and gave her a lot of hands-on experience with attachment and identity concerns. She has also worked in an in-patient psychiatric hospital supporting short-term stabilization for people with severe mood and thought disorders.
More recently she has worked in education as a school psychologist, doing psychoeducational assessments and counseling. Her evaluations help shape individualized education plans and related supports for students with autism, AD/HD, intellectual disabilities, and learning differences.
Chelsea draws on a blend of therapy methods but tends to center sessions on a person-focused, humanistic stance. She also uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to help people set concrete goals and practice new skills.
She has five years of clinical experience as a licensed practitioner and brings particular experience around adoption and foster care, blended-family issues, gender dysphoria, social anxiety, parenting challenges, and trauma. Chelsea describes her role as companionable rather than directive, prioritizing empathy and collaboration in each session.
Before moving into school-based work, Chelsea spent nine years as a social worker with Child Protective Services. That role focused on foster care and adoption and gave her a lot of hands-on experience with attachment and identity concerns. She has also worked in an in-patient psychiatric hospital supporting short-term stabilization for people with severe mood and thought disorders.
More recently she has worked in education as a school psychologist, doing psychoeducational assessments and counseling. Her evaluations help shape individualized education plans and related supports for students with autism, AD/HD, intellectual disabilities, and learning differences.
Chelsea draws on a blend of therapy methods but tends to center sessions on a person-focused, humanistic stance. She also uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to help people set concrete goals and practice new skills.
She has five years of clinical experience as a licensed practitioner and brings particular experience around adoption and foster care, blended-family issues, gender dysphoria, social anxiety, parenting challenges, and trauma. Chelsea describes her role as companionable rather than directive, prioritizing empathy and collaboration in each session.