About Heidi
Heidi Vial is an AASW social worker with ten years of counselling experience. She supports people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, anger and low self-esteem. Heidi writes plainly and gently, and she helps clients find small, achievable steps forward.
Heidi believes people know their own story and have strengths to build on. In sessions she listens, reflects, and helps uncover practical ways to cope. She works with motivation and confidence, and she supports people who are dealing with loss or ongoing life stress.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and respectful. Heidi aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what will help day to day. She encourages clear goals and reviews progress so people can see change happening in small ways.
Heidi also has broader experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, ageing and geriatric matters, chronic illness and pain, and caregiver stress. She has worked with people affected by body image struggles, cancer, and relationship commitment worries. People who prefer English-speaking counselling will find Heidi communicates directly and calmly.
She frames therapy as a team effort and supports clients as they try new coping skills. The practical work in sessions is designed to fit into real life and everyday routines.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Heidi uses are problem-solving focused work and skills coaching. Problem-solving work helps break big issues into manageable steps and is useful for stress, grief and relationship problems. Skills coaching focuses on practical tools like breathwork, assertive communication or behaviour experiments to build confidence and manage anxiety.Heidi treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss different techniques and tailor them to your goals and preferences. Together you decide which methods to try and adjust them as you track progress.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video helps keep a face-to-face feel, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals from wherever you are in Australia.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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