About Heidi
Heidi Christie welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief or past trauma. She writes plainly and calmly, offering a steady space to talk and to work through what feels unmanageable. Heidi is an ACA counsellor with 13 years' experience and aims to help people feel understood while they take practical steps forward.
She focuses on what matters right now. Sessions often begin by identifying immediate concerns and simple tools to reduce intense feelings.
Background and approach
Heidi combines gentle conversation with body-based practices and attention to how early relationships shape present responses. The aim is to return a sense of control and clearer thinking. Heidi works with adults who are dealing with emotional overwhelm, low self-worth, burnout, chronic illness, major life changes and the effects of childhood trauma.
She also supports people managing caregiving stress, attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, and adjustment after medical or life transitions. Her style is warm and trauma-informed. Heidi pays attention to nervous system responses and uses expressive and parts-focused techniques alongside talk therapy.
She encourages small, doable changes and builds on each person’s strengths. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Heidi listens for what is working and what needs to shift, then helps develop practical strategies, coping skills and clearer patterns of relating.
Therapy aims for steady, meaningful change rather than quick fixes.
How Heidi’s approaches translate to online therapy
Heidi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine talk work with attention to the body. Somatic-informed practice helps people notice and name physical sensations tied to anxiety or trauma, and learn simple grounding exercises that can be practised between sessions. Attachment-focused work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns, helping people recognise repeated cycles and try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Heidi works with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals. She explains options, experiments gently, and adjusts methods as progress is made so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing to speak or who want brief, regular support between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and health demands, and to practise skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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