Meet Heidi

Addictions, Compulsive Behaviours & Recovery

Heidi works with individuals experiencing substance use concerns, behavioural addictions, and patterns of compulsive or out-of-control behaviour, including alcohol use, drug use, gambling, pornography use, gaming, and sexual compulsivity. Rather than viewing addiction as simply a matter of willpower, she helps clients understand the emotional, relational, and situational factors that contribute to addictive cycles. Treatment focuses on increasing insight, strengthening coping strategies, addressing underlying concerns, and supporting meaningful, sustainable recovery.

Couples, Intimacy & Sexual Well-Being

Relationships can be a source of both deep fulfillment and significant distress. Heidi works with couples experiencing communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, trust concerns, infidelity, and the impact of stress, trauma, ADHD, or life transitions on their relationship. Drawing from attachment-based approaches and Gottman Method principles, she helps partners understand the patterns that keep them stuck while building stronger foundations for communication, connection, and mutual understanding.

Heidi also works with individuals and couples navigating concerns related to desire, intimacy, sexual functioning, sexual compulsivity, and the impact of emotional or relational difficulties on sexual well-being. These conversations take place in a respectful, non-judgmental space where concerns can be explored openly, communication can be strengthened, and clients can move toward more satisfying and authentic intimate lives. This work is informed by ongoing professional development toward certification in sex therapy through AASECT-approved training.

Trauma, Attachment Injuries & Life-Altering Experiences

Many psychological difficulties can be traced to experiences that overwhelm a person’s ability to cope — whether through trauma, chronic stress, emotional neglect, loss, or significant relational injuries. Heidi helps clients understand how these experiences influence emotional regulation, beliefs about self and others, relationships, and daily functioning. Her approach combines practical stabilization strategies with deeper exploration of the patterns that developed in response to adversity, helping clients move toward greater resilience, safety, and self-understanding.

Stress, Burnout & the Weight of Responsibility

Heidi frequently works with professionals, caregivers, helping professionals, and high-achieving individuals who appear capable on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected internally. Many have spent years prioritizing responsibilities, meeting expectations, or caring for others — sometimes in demanding professional roles — while quietly neglecting their own needs. Therapy focuses on restoring balance, clarifying values, developing healthy boundaries, and creating more sustainable ways of living and relating.

Women’s Mental Health, Identity & Well-Being

Women often carry a great deal — professionally, relationally, and personally — in ways that are not always visible or acknowledged. Heidi works with women navigating a wide range of experiences, including questions of identity, self-worth, and the tension between personal values and societal expectations. She also works with women experiencing the relational and emotional weight of caregiving, and those who find themselves consistently prioritizing others while quietly losing sight of their own needs and sense of self.

Heidi has particular experience supporting women through reproductive and hormonal life transitions, including postpartum depression and perinatal mental health concerns, infertility and pregnancy loss, and the emotional and psychological dimensions of menopause. These are experiences that can profoundly affect mood, identity, relationships, and overall well-being, and they deserve thoughtful, informed clinical attention. Therapy provides a space where women can be honest about what they are carrying — and begin to reconnect with their own clarity, strength, and sense of self.

Men’s Mental Health & Life Challenges

Many men have learned to manage stress, emotions, and personal struggles through independence, problem-solving, or perseverance — often without opportunities to openly discuss their experiences. Heidi works with men facing concerns related to relationships, identity, fatherhood, career pressures, emotional regulation, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. Therapy provides a practical and supportive environment where challenges can be explored without judgment, helping men develop greater self-awareness, resilience, and confidence in navigating life’s demands.

Psychological Assessment Services

In addition to therapy, Heidi offers comprehensive psychological assessments for teens and adults. Assessment is a distinct and valuable service for individuals who are seeking clarity — about a diagnosis, about longstanding patterns of thinking or behaviour, about their strengths and challenges, or about what kind of support would be most helpful. Rather than simply labelling, a thorough psychological assessment provides a detailed and individualized understanding that can meaningfully inform treatment, support planning, legal proceedings, vocational decisions, or personal insight.

Heidi conducts assessments across a range of areas, including ADHD, trauma, personality functioning, emotional well-being, addictions, parenting capacity, and vocational fit. She has particular expertise in complex and overlapping presentations — cases where previous assessments have felt incomplete, where multiple diagnoses may be at play, or where a clearer diagnostic picture is needed to move forward. All assessments include a written report and a feedback session in which findings and recommendations are discussed directly with the client.