Heidi De Leon,LCSW

04/28/2026

✨ EMDR Consultation Now Open ✨

Are you an EMDR-trained clinician looking for support, structure, and deeper clinical confidence in your work?

I’m offering EMDR consultation designed to help you:
✔ Strengthen case conceptualization using the AIP model
✔ Navigate stuck processing and complex trauma (CPTSD, addiction)
✔ Build confidence with cognitive interweaves and resourcing
✔ Move toward EMDRIA certification

👩‍⚕️ Heidi De Leon, LCSW (she/they)
📍 EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training
💻 Virtual consultation

💲 Rates:
• $100 Individual Consultation
• $50 Group Consultation

🗓 Group meets every other Sunday at 6:30pm PST

📧 [email protected]
📞 562-418-0686

04/20/2026

Think of the mind like a ship.
Each part has a role.

Some scan for danger.
Some hold pain.
Some keep things running.
Some protect at all costs.

✨ The goal isn’t to “get rid” of parts
✨ The goal is communication, cooperation, and safety

When parts begin to work with each other instead of against each other…
That’s when healing begins.

EMDR helps create:
✔ Safety between parts
✔ Processing of trauma memories
✔ Integration without losing identity

You don’t have to fight your system.
You can learn to understand it.

📩 [email protected]

❤️

04/17/2026

Mental Health Check-In 🧠✨

Not all struggles are visible — but there are tools that can help us better understand what’s going on beneath the surface.

Three commonly used screenings in mental health care:

• PCL-5 → Screens for symptoms of PTSD (trauma-related distress)
• GAD-7 → Measures levels of anxiety
• PHQ-9 → Assesses symptoms of depression

These aren’t diagnoses — they’re starting points. They help identify patterns, track progress, and guide meaningful conversations in therapy.

If you’ve been feeling:
– overwhelmed
– on edge
– disconnected
– exhausted
– or “not like yourself”

…it might be time to check in with yourself.

You don’t have to figure it out alone. Support is available, and healing is possible.

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Created by Heidi De Leon, LCSW
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04/16/2026

04/14/2026

When it comes to documentation unless it helps you and you need it, I’m not writing it. Keep it simple. Keep it pushing. Discrete and to the point.

03/19/2026

Transparency in social work. Running a business is not that hard but it’s also not that easy. You can do well as Lcsw out here. Ask me how.

03/17/2026

📚 Heidi’s Top 5 Books – March 2026 📚

This month’s reading list is all about growth, connection, and doing the work—personally, professionally, and relationally. These are the books shaping how I show up in my practice and in my life:

✨ Decolonizing Therapy – Challenging traditional frameworks and expanding what healing can look like across cultures.

✨ The Gift of Therapy – A timeless, honest look at the therapeutic relationship and what truly helps clients heal.

✨ Get Good with Money – Because financial wellness is part of overall wellness. Practical, empowering, and necessary.

✨ Strengths Based Leadership – Leaning into what’s already working and building from there—in business, teams, and life.

✨ Nonviolent Communication – A powerful reminder that how we communicate can either build connection or create distance.

These books reflect what I believe in deeply:
🌿 Healing is intentional
🌿 Growth is practiced
🌿 Change is observable when we apply what we learn

If you’ve read any of these—or plan to—let me know your thoughts 👇

03/14/2026

Are you working toward EMDRIA Certification or Consultant status and looking for supportive, structured consultation?

I offer individual and group EMDR consultation hours designed to help clinicians deepen their confidence, clinical skill, and fidelity to the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.

In consultation we may explore:

✨ Case conceptualization through the AIP model
✨ Target sequencing and treatment planning
✨ Cognitive interweaves when processing becomes blocked
✨ Managing dissociation and complex trauma
✨ Floatback and feeder memory identification
✨ Phase 2 resourcing and stabilization
✨ Installation, future templates, and closure strategies
✨ Building confidence as an EMDR therapist

My consultation style is supportive, practical, and clinically grounded, helping you strengthen both EMDR protocol fidelity and therapeutic intuition.

Whether you are:
• Newly trained in EMDR
• Working toward EMDRIA Certification
• Expanding your trauma treatment skills

Consultation provides a space to refine your practice and grow as a clinician.

📍 Individual & Group Consultation Available
📍 Virtual Sessions

DM or email [email protected]

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Heidi De Leon, LCSW
EMDR Therapist | Consultant-in-Training