- Person-centered approach
- Experience with adoption
- Supports LGBTQ people
About Chelsea
Chelsea Heller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people facing depression, anxiety, parenting stress, and identity concerns. She draws on a warm, person-centered style and aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through what matters most to them. Chelsea emphasizes collaboration and moves at each person’s pace when setting goals for therapy.
She spent nine years as a social worker with Child Protective Services, supporting children and families touched by foster care and adoption. That work gave her direct experience with attachment questions, adoption-related issues, and the practical challenges families face. She later worked in an in-patient psychiatric hospital helping stabilize people short-term and educating families about diagnoses and care approaches.
After clinical roles in child welfare and inpatient care, she shifted into the education field and now works as a school psychologist. In that role she conducts psychoeducational assessments to identify autism, intellectual disabilities, AD/HD, and learning disabilities, and she uses assessment results to inform individualized education plans.
Chelsea brings several therapeutic methods into sessions, including client-centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. She describes her overall approach as eclectic but grounded in humanistic values, aiming to meet each person where they are.
She has a background supporting LGBTQ students and families, including facilitation of a Gay Straight Alliance and doctoral research on LGBTQ student needs. Chelsea holds a Master of Arts in Counseling (Marriage & Family Therapy) and other graduate credentials, and she has five years of clinical experience working across community, hospital, and school settings.
She spent nine years as a social worker with Child Protective Services, supporting children and families touched by foster care and adoption. That work gave her direct experience with attachment questions, adoption-related issues, and the practical challenges families face. She later worked in an in-patient psychiatric hospital helping stabilize people short-term and educating families about diagnoses and care approaches.
After clinical roles in child welfare and inpatient care, she shifted into the education field and now works as a school psychologist. In that role she conducts psychoeducational assessments to identify autism, intellectual disabilities, AD/HD, and learning disabilities, and she uses assessment results to inform individualized education plans.
Chelsea brings several therapeutic methods into sessions, including client-centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. She describes her overall approach as eclectic but grounded in humanistic values, aiming to meet each person where they are.
She has a background supporting LGBTQ students and families, including facilitation of a Gay Straight Alliance and doctoral research on LGBTQ student needs. Chelsea holds a Master of Arts in Counseling (Marriage & Family Therapy) and other graduate credentials, and she has five years of clinical experience working across community, hospital, and school settings.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.