About Heidi
Heidi Christie welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, or low self-esteem. She is an ACA counsellor with 13 years of experience and offers calm, practical support for those trying to find their footing. Her style is warm and trauma-informed.
Sessions are a mix of talking and gentle body-aware techniques that help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She uses attachment-informed ways of thinking and parts work to help people understand patterns that keep causing pain.
How Heidi works
Heidi pays attention to life events that shape a person's sense of self, such as abandonment, adoption or foster care, illness, or caregiving strain. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain or medical challenges, cancer concerns, and difficulties around communication or control. Therapy with Heidi focuses on practical steps as well as healing.
She helps people build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and reconnect with values that matter. Sessions aim to be collaborative, paced to the person's readiness, and centred on realistic change. Heidi offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible ways to meet.
People who live in Australia and who speak English can use a subscription that is cancelled at any time to access sessions and ongoing support.
What Heidi works with
The areas below are the ones Heidi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Heidi works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that blend talk therapy with attention to the body and attachment patterns. Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and breathing to help lower overwhelm and manage anxiety and stress. Attachment-focused approaches look at connection patterns and help people understand how past relationships shape current responses, which can support work on relationship and self-esteem concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Heidi will discuss the options, try approaches out, and adjust methods based on a person's goals, preferences and what proves most helpful in sessions. The process is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness.
Online therapy with Heidi is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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