Portrait of Albany, CA therapist Heidi Ronfeldt Phd offering CBT and ACT for children, teens, and adults

Support & Strategies to help you make meaningful change.

In person and online therapy for kids, teens, and adults that is grounded in compassion, guided by research, and tailored to you.

welcome

Thanks for your interest in my practice. I am a clinical psychologist who has over 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, teens, and adults. 

I value helping my clients open up, gain clarity, identify goals, and move toward these goals in order to grow.  

Services

Child Therapy

TEEN Therapy

aDULT Therapy

Collaborative and Compassionate Care

I work with children, teens, and adults facing a wide range of challenges—whether it's anxiety, attention struggles, relationship issues, or big life changes. Together, we can navigate these challenges and move towards growth and fulfillment.

Areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, the following - 

  • Anxiety - separation, social, general, panic, phobias

  • Attention, impulsivity/hyperactivity, ADHD, Executive functioning difficulties

  • Depression

  • Emotion regulation

  • Interpersonal skills including social skills and assertiveness training

  • Intrusive thoughts, OCD, body dysmorphia, health anxiety

  • Life transitions

  • Parenting skills

  • Perfectionism

  • Relationship problems

  • School and work challenges

  • Skin picking or peeling, hair pulling

  • Sleep problems

  • Stress management

  • Motor and vocal tics, Tourette’s Disorder

  • Worry, rumination

Grounded in Evidence. Tailored to You.

I draw from a range of evidence-based approaches, choosing tools and techniques that best align with your goals, strengths, and lived experience. My therapeutic style is compassionate, inquisitive, active, and collaborative.

I have training and/or experience with the following evidence-based therapies and modalities - 

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Exposure-based therapy for anxiety and related disorders

  • Exposure-Response Prevention (ERP) for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • ACT and CBT Parenting approaches including Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) and Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)

  • Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment (ComB) for body-focused repetitive behaviors, ie, skin picking and hair pulling

  • Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) - motor and vocal tics, Tourette Syndrome

  • Mindfulness, Compassion, and Gratitude techniques