BRIDGING MENTAL HEALTH & FAITH
A Passion for Helping Others
Hi, I’m Heidi.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), coach, and business consultant helping individuals, leaders, and families experience clarity, emotional health, and aligned direction.
I offer:
Counseling – trauma-informed, faith-integrated therapy
Coaching – forward-focused support for growth, leadership, and life transitions
Business Consulting – helping organizations and leaders build healthy, sustainable systems
My Background
I hold a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Bethel University and am EMDR Certified and Daring Way™ trained. I also completed ICF-accredited coaching training through BetterUp.
I spent 16 years building and leading a successful mental health practice, which I sold in 2024. That experience shapes how I understand leadership, burnout, and building something meaningful.
Family Business Focus
I come from a family business background, giving me firsthand understanding of the unique dynamics between family and work.
I provide coaching and consulting for family businesses and their members, helping navigate communication, roles, and leadership—so both the relationships and the business can thrive.
My Approach
I integrate emotional health, strategy, and faith (when desired), helping you discern what’s yours to carry—and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Let’s Work Together
Whether through counseling, coaching, or consulting, I’d be honored to support you.
Services & Products Heidi offers
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
~2 Corinthians 5:17
Finding True Purpose
There is a lot of pain in this world but it’s not useful to us. Pain is okay for a period of time, but we don’t need to set up camp in hurt and pain. Instead, we need to process, move forward, and be transformed by it. Encouragement plays a big role in accomplishing this. Having others point out the obvious doesn’t help us. But hearing someone say “I know you are struggling right now and I believe in you. You are stronger than you think. I love you!” is empowering.
Heidi wrote the book The Brave Encourager because she has seen how much her encouragement of others has shifted their moods, days, and lives. She didn’t realize at first that she was encouraging others until she received feedback from them about how much it impacted them. She was just being herself.
When Heidi later went through a season lacking in encouragement of herself, she truly came to understand the significance of encouragement. A word of encouragement can literally save a life. If someone is depressed or suicidal, it can bring them out of that hole of despair. It can bring someone with dreams to action and make those dreams a reality.
The Wright Brothers dreamed of and pioneered the world’s first motor-operated airplane. They could have given up hundreds of times with each failure, but they had a golden dream inside. Most importantly, they had each other to encourage and offer encouragement to the other. Throughout their repetitive process of dreaming, inventing, building, and failing, encouragement kept them going.
A few years ago, Heidi saw an image of books in her dreams. She started to believe she could write a book. When she sat down to write, an outline of The Brave Encourager quickly came out on the computer. So during the middle of winter 2020, with the help of an amazing coach, Marcie, she began turning her learnings and discoveries in the chapters of her first book.
Now she is pursuing coaching and consulting, utilizing what God and others have shown her, to help bring others to the realization of their goals and dreams.
“Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.”
– Bill Johnson