About Chelsea
Chelsea Heller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She takes a warm, direct approach and aims to make therapy feel manageable for people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, parenting challenges, grief, or identity concerns. She communicates plainly and works at a pace that fits each person.
She draws from client-centered practice to build a trusting relationship. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Chelsea uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help reframe unhelpful thoughts and from solution-focused therapy to identify small, achievable changes. Before shifting to school-based work, Chelsea spent nine years as a social worker with Child Protective Services. That work involved supporting children touched by foster care and adoption and helping caregivers navigate attachment and identity issues.
She also has experience in an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting supporting short-term stabilization for acute mental health needs. In the school setting she now works as a school psychologist, conducting psychoeducational assessments for autism, ADHD, intellectual and learning differences, and helping create education plans.
She also provides counseling and has worked closely with LGBTQ students and families, including facilitating student groups and researching LGBTQ student needs. Chelsea’s style is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She helps people set therapy goals and supports them in making their own choices.
Her background blends practical assessment experience with ongoing classroom and clinical work, which informs a straightforward, strengths-based approach.
How Chelsea’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting people where they are and building a trusting relationship. Online sessions let that connection happen in a flexible way, with the therapist following the client's pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses short exercises to test new ways of thinking; this approach adapts well to video or text formats where worksheets and behavioral experiments can be assigned between sessions. Motivational interviewing helps clarify what a person wants to change and strengthens their own motivation to act, using reflective conversation and goal setting that work in live calls or messaging.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Chelsea will listen to the client's goals, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process aims to find practical tools that fit the person's life and schedule rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like fitting sessions around work or school, reducing travel time, and letting shorter check-ins happen by message. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and apply strategies in day-to-day situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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