Location
Please note: For health and safety, I am conducting therapy sessions online by video as well as in-person, masked and with fans, filters.
About
Your relationship with yourself is key to how happy you are at home, at work, and beyond. I collaborate one-on-one with clients to cultivate self-compassion and heal from old wounds so they can move from surviving to thriving. I act as a guide and sounding board, with a commitment to respecting each individual as the expert on their own experience. As a queer, genderfluid therapist and activist, I support partners in monogamous and consensual nonmonogamous relationships, and I’m committed to honoring and uplifting the lived experiences of people from underrepresented racial backgrounds, abilities, genders, and sexualities.
My approach is integrated and tailored to best meet my client’s needs, and draws on postmodern feminist, attachment-based, humanistic, and cognitive behavioral techniques, with a strengths-based and trauma-informed lens. I believe in human beings’ innate tendency towards growth. My style is collaborative, inclusive, relational, practical, and yes, even fun!
I aim to bring empathy, joy, and a sense of grounded calm to my sessions. Have questions? Wondering if we'd be a good fit? I'd love to hear from you.
Call or Email Heather Buchheim for a free 15 minute consultation now - (925) 438-6553
Finances
- Session Fee: $150 per session
I don't currently accept insurance. Fees are collected via Ivy Pay, which stores your card and save you the trouble of paying each session.
Email me or call (925) 438-6553 with questions.
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 4 Years
- School: The Wright Institute
- Year Graduated: 2020
- Supervisor: Laura Northrup
- Supervisor License: California / 90875
Endorsements
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Location
Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- LGBTQ+
- Anxiety
Issues
- ADHD
- Alcohol Use
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Career Counseling
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Life Transitions
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Peer Relationships
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Transgender
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Bisexual Allied
- Body Positivity
- Gay Allied
- HIV / AIDS Allied
- Intersex Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
Last Modified: 1 Dec 2022
(925) 438-6553