About Carmen
Carmen Heidecke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and challenges that interfere with daily life. Carmen speaks English and German and works online with clients from different places.
Carmen uses somatic practices alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches. She helps people notice how the body holds tension and how thoughts and beliefs keep them stuck. Sessions aim to uncover limiting beliefs, practice new ways of responding, and build steady coping skills for overwhelm and low mood.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and grounded. She guides short, clear exercises in session and helps people apply them between meetings. She also uses motivational interviewing to support changes people want to make, such as improving relationships, addressing addictions, or shifting career direction.
With eight years as a licensed counselor, Carmen blends talking therapy with body-aware techniques. This mix can help when symptoms show up as physical tension, dissociation, or emotional shutdown. She pays attention to patterns that come from early attachment and how those patterns affect current relationships and choices.
People who reach out can expect calm, straightforward guidance and collaborative planning. Carmen supports efforts around self-esteem, grief, impulse control, and life purpose. She works with individual adults to untangle habits and build more meaningful routines and connections.
How somatic and attachment work online
Somatic Therapy helps people tune into body sensations and notice how stress shows up physically. Online sessions use guided exercises and gentle attention to breath, posture, and bodily cues to reduce tension and increase present-moment awareness. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma responses, and when emotions feel stuck.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections. In online sessions this translates to conversations that track relational triggers, communication patterns, and ways of seeking safety with others. It can help with trust issues, relationship worries, and recurring interpersonal conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carmen will discuss goals, notice what feels most helpful, and adjust methods so they match each person's needs and comfort level. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape the work as it progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual and body-based cues, while phone sessions remove the need for a camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or homework follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English, German