Associate marriage and family therapist #160374

Heidi doland, amft

Specializes in anxiety, depression, relationship and co-parenting concerns, complex trauma, women's issues, life transitions, recovery from high-control religious environments, and integrative approaches including Parts Work (IFS-informed), nervous system regulation, and mind-body-heart connection.

Approach

I am passionate about supporting clients in healing and growing into lives that feel more aligned, meaningful, and connected. As a heart-centered, attuned therapist, I prioritize co-creating a relational, emotionally safe space where you can explore your inner and outer worlds with deeper awareness and care.

My integrative, trauma-informed approach draws on the body’s innate wisdom, weaving together somatic practices, narrative therapy, and IFS-informed parts work, to help you move through areas of mental, emotional, and relational pain and stuckness. Together, we focus on expanding your nervous system’s capacity and flexibility so you can meet both the challenges and joys of life with greater resilience. This process includes attuning to your inner voice, cultivating self-compassion, challenging limiting beliefs, and engaging in somatic practices that help build a deep sense of safety and trust within—supporting more authentic, embodied living.

A central part of my work involves healing and re-parenting the inner child, and integrating parts of yourself that may have been shamed, silenced, or abandoned. Through this process, clients often experience a deeper sense of wholeness, vitality, and connection.

I commonly support clients in working with anxiety, depression, constructive anger, developing boundaries that foster deeper connection, navigating parenting and co-parenting, strengthening relationships, exploring meaning and purpose, moving through life transitions, healing from trauma, and recovering from high-control religious environments.

I welcome clients of all identities and backgrounds—individuals, couples, and families, including LGBTQ+ communities.

I identify as an empathic, highly sensitive, white, cisgendered, straight woman, and fiercely loving mom. As a person who has overcome religious and relational trauma, I know that healing can feel like an act of rebellion, and I honor the courage it takes to listen to the call of your heart and pursue a life of freedom and purpose.

Heidi Doland is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) completing her post-graduate clinical hours toward independent licensure under the supervision of Dr. Natalie Rios (PSY25690).

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

• Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, National University, San Diego, CA