Learn About Our Services
Inner Wisdom Psychotherapy offers a sanctuary for healing and personal growth, focusing on the profound transformation that comes from addressing the foundational aspects of one’s challenges. With our virtual video therapy sessions, we provide accessible and compassionate care to adults across Ontario, tailored to suit your individual needs and schedule.
Individual Psychotherapy
Lasting change happens when you understand the patterns driving your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
Psychotherapy offers a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you can slow down and make sense of what you’re experiencing. You will build a greater understanding of yourself and how to move forward through your current struggles.
Rather than simply treating symptoms, you will understand the underlying patterns that are keeping you stuck and develop greater self-awareness, healthier coping strategies, and practical tools to respond differently to life’s challenges.
Our work together is collaborative and individualized. We’ll identify your goals, explore the internal and external factors influencing your well-being, and create a personalized treatment plan that reflects your unique needs and strengths.
Areas of Service
We pride ourselves on creating safe spaces and offering virtual therapy in order to provide accessible and compassionate care to adults across Ontario.
Major service areas are as follows, but we do work with clients across Ontario, Canada.
Woodstock, ON
TIllsonburg, ON
Ingersoll, ON
Kitchener, ON
Cambridge, ON
Waterloo, ON
Niagara Falls, ON
London, ON
Brantford, ON
Toronto, ON
St. Thomas, ON
Stratford, ON
Specialized Focus Areas
Heidi’s specialized interests and areas of focus include:
Anxiety
Generalized anxiety
Social anxiety
Panic attacks
Some forms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Skills and strategies to stop ruminating thoughts, overthinking, constant worry and critical self-talk
Trauma
Historical abuse and abuse during childhood impacting current life functioning and relationships
Attachment wounds and relationship challenges
Relationship abuse, intimate partner abuse
Rebuilding self esteem, boundaries, self-trust and confidence after trauma
Substance Use and Addiction
Overuse and misuse of alcohol and drugs
Binge use
Goals of abstinence, reduced use or safer use of substances
Tapering plans to reduce and quit substance use
Concurrent treatment of mental health and substance use, for example alcohol being used to reduce anxiety symptoms
Grief, Loss and Life Transitions
Death and non-death losses (job loss, changes in health, etc.)
Divorce, separations and break-ups
Changes in roles and life phase including retirement, caring for aging parents, etc.
Grief and loss of any kind
Therapy Tailored to You
Starting therapy can feel overwhelming, especially if it’s your first time. You don’t need to have all the answers before you begin. We’ll move at a pace that feels comfortable for you, and together create a therapy plan designed to meet your goals, values, and readiness for change.
From our very first session, we’ll work together to understand what has brought you to therapy and identify the changes you want to make. We determine what you want to focus on in sessions and the experiences you want to process. This creates a supportive and safe therapy plan where you will have clarity and direction on the path forward for how we will work together. Therapy is most effective when you have a therapy plan that is aligned to what matters most to you.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, trauma, substance use challenges, grief, or a major life transition, your therapy will be designed to help you better understand yourself, develop practical tools for navigating life’s challenges, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Rather than relying on a single therapeutic approach, Heidi thoughtfully integrates a range of evidence-based therapies to meet your individual needs.
Depending on your goals, therapy may include:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you respond differently to difficult thoughts and emotions while building a life guided by your values.
- Internal Family Systems Informed Parts Work to deepen self-understanding, heal emotional wounds, and cultivate greater self-compassion for all parts of you.
- Solution-Focused and Strengths-Based Therapy to recognize your existing strengths and build practical solutions.
- Narrative Therapy to help you reshape the stories and experiences that influence how you see yourself and your future.
Heidi also integrates principles from Somatic approaches, Motivational Interviewing, Attachment Theory, Family Systems Theory, and trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive practice to ensure therapy is compassionate, collaborative, and tailored specifically to you.
Clinical Supervision, Consultation and Workshops:
Providing exceptional client care begins with investing in your own professional growth. Whether you’re a new therapist building confidence or an experienced clinician seeking consultation on complex cases, quality clinical supervision provides the opportunity to strengthen your skills, expand your knowledge, and continue growing as a reflective practitioner. My goal is to create a supportive and collaborative environment where you feel challenged to grow while also feeling genuinely encouraged and valued as a clinician.
Heidi offers clinical supervision, consultation, and professional development to Registered Social Workers and organizations across Ontario. Her approach is collaborative, supportive, and grounded in evidence-based practice, creating a space where clinicians can explore challenges openly, deepen clinical reasoning, and build confidence in their work.
Supervision and consultation can help you:
- Strengthen your clinical knowledge, skills, and professional confidence.
- Navigate complex client presentations with greater clarity.
- Identify your strengths while supporting continued professional growth.
- Deepen your clinical formulation and decision-making skills.
- Enhance self-awareness and reflective practice.
- Develop sustainable strategies for self-care and reduce the risk of burnout.
- Explore areas of specialization and advance your professional development.
With more than 20 years of experience in counselling, psychotherapy, leadership, and clinical education, Heidi brings a wealth of knowledge to supervision and consultation. Her background includes serving in leadership and clinical training roles within non-profit organizations, facilitating supervision and consultation groups for therapists in both public and private practice, and providing program development and policy consultation to social service agencies.
Heidi is a qualified Clinical Supervisor, having completed trainings in the Foundations and Explorations of Clinical Supervision. She is committed to fostering a reflective, engaging, and supportive learning environment where clinicians feel encouraged to ask questions, strengthen their clinical judgment, and continue developing into confident, ethical, and effective practitioners.
Convenient
Scheduling
We understand the importance of flexibility, which is why we offer evening and weekend sessions to fit into your busy life. Virtual therapy means you can access care from the comfort of your own space, at times that work for you.
Discover the courage to confront life’s challenges and embrace the wisdom within. Book a free consultation with Inner Wisdom Psychotherapy today and take the first step toward a life of clarity and fulfillment.