Heidi guides and supports people in the process of developing their innate ability to grow and flourish from difficult situations, and establish a new life path with balance, clarity and overall health. She has taught awareness and recovery from trauma for various educational facilities, organizations and agencies.
She focuses on providing guidance on how to support oneself and one’s community in achieving balance as well as peace of the mind, body and soul. She has worked with a variety of communities, including those with mental health concerns, criminal histories, survivors of disaster and other life traumas.
With a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, Heidi is a certified member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals, a diplomate member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and a compassion fatigue specialist through the International Institute of Traumatology.
Heidi believes that the more simple the guidance, the more powerful the impact. She emphasises the need to minimise the load of daily information intake and encourages to slow down in order to practice focusing on one thing at the time.
According to Heidi, a good leader is not someone who has the answers, but someone who can hold oneself in balance. She states that being in balance during unpredictable and unknown situations starts with knowing that we’re all in this together. She thinks that what makes us good leaders is admitting our vulnerabilities, while doing our best encouraging others.
“Sometimes actually just being present is the problem solving itself,” Heidi notes.
She values the use of humor and believes that having a good laugh to releasing stress hormones in the midst of a crazy situation. She invites everyone to bring awareness to the acts of kindness that are happening while the world is standing still.
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