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Heidi Louise Counselling

Brisbane Based Psychotherapist AMHSW, Lvl 3 Gottman Couples Therapist, Lvl 2 Internal Family Systems Therapist .

05/02/2026

I’m honoured to share that my work is featured in the latest edition of AASW Magazine – Social Work Focus .

In this article, I unpack key ideas from my book The Love Blueprint, drawing together my work as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and psychotherapist with the values that underpin social work practice. My therapeutic framework is deeply shaped by social work principles, respect for persons, human relationships, self-determination, and an understanding of distress as relational and contextual.

The piece also reflects the strong influence of Internal Family Systems (IFS) in my work. Through an IFS lens, what I describe as our inner blueprint can be understood as a system of protective parts , adaptive responses shaped by early relationships, environment, and nervous system survival. These patterns are not flaws to be fixed, but parts of us that once worked hard to keep us safe.

A heartfelt thank you to Matt Loads, editor of Social Work Focus, for the thoughtful article and for creating space for reflective, relational, and trauma-informed conversations within our profession.

📖 Read the article here:
https://www.aasw.asn.au/aasw-news/social-work-focus/november-december-2025/

03/02/2026

So grateful for this beautiful Zoom conversation with Dr Dana McNeil and her incredible team at The Relationship Place in San Diego, US 🤍

Their clinic book club has been reading The Love Blueprint, and hearing how deeply it’s been received and used in their work with couples was genuinely moving. We spent time unpacking the heart of the book — trauma-informed practice, Gottman relationship science, Internal Family Systems, polyvagal theory, and what it really means to support couples and relationships with care, nuance, and compassion.

Such a joy to connect with clinicians who are doing this work so thoughtfully in the world. Thank you for the warmth, curiosity, and meaningful conversation. I loved meeting you all ✨

27/01/2026

Healthy love can feel uncomfortable not because it’s unsafe, but because it asks you to turn inward first.

When you’re triggered, it’s often a protective part stepping in.
The part that learned to shut down, over-explain, or stay on high alert to survive.

These parts aren’t the problem.
They’re doing exactly what they learned to do.

Healthy relationships slow things down.
They invite you to notice what’s happening inside before reacting outwardly.
To meet your parts with curiosity instead of judgement.

Over time, this is how safety is builtfrom the inside out.

Healthy love doesn’t eliminate triggers.
It teaches your system that connection doesn’t require survival.

21/01/2026

Feeling safe in love isn’t a mindset.
It’s a nervous system experience.

It’s when your protective parts don’t have to work so hard.
When conflict doesn’t mean abandonment.
When repair is expected, not feared.

This is the kind of love I write about in The Love Blueprint (available on Amazon and my website Link in Bio)
where safety is built through trust, responsiveness, and co-regulation.
Where two people learn how to steady themselves and each other.

Because real intimacy isn’t intensity.
It’s the quiet knowing: we’ll find our way back. ❤️ Heidi Louise - Clinical Psychotherapist

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19/01/2026

The Love Blueprint Workshop Series 2026!

Saturday 7th March secure your spot now!!

Two workshops one for Allied Health Professionals and one to all.

These workshops are not oriented toward behavioural change or symptom reduction.
They focus on developing a deeper understanding of attachment processes and the internal psychological systems that organise protection, connection, and relational functioning.

Grounded in evidence-based and trauma-informed practice, the work integrates attachment theory, Internal Family Systems, and the Gottman Method to support reflective capacity, emotional regulation, and compassionate engagement with internal and interpersonal processes.

Evidence-based • Trauma-informed • Attachment Theory–informed • Internal Family Systems–informed • Gottman Method

Bookings via my website link in bio!

16/01/2026

The Love Blueprint Workshops Series | 2026

Two workshops.
Two different audiences.
The same inward, compassionate lens.

✨ One workshop for Allied Health Professionals & Therapists
A clinically grounded space to deepen relational work using trauma-informed, Gottman Method and IFS-informed frameworks.

✨ One workshop open to all
An invitation to explore your relationship with yourself — and how this inner world shapes connection with others. Come on your own or as a couple.

These workshops are not about changing who you are.
They are about understanding the parts of you that learned to protect, attach, and relate.

Evidence-based • Trauma-informed • IFS-informed • Compassion-focused

Limited spots available
Bookings via heidilouisecounselling.org

09/01/2026

Rupture, Repair, and the Way Back

Rupture is inevitable.
Repair is a choice.

In my book, THE LOVE BLUEPRINT grounded in Gottman relationship science and Internal Family Systems, I explore how secure connection is built by learning to turn toward rather than away by noticing the parts of us that want to protect, withdraw, or defend, and gently choosing to lean in instead.

Repair asks us to stay engaged, to soften after disconnection, and to keep finding our way back to together.

- Announcing -Two workshops coming next week —
one for allied health professionals, and one for individuals and couples.
A reading on repair today.
— Love Heidi Louise, Clinical Psychotherapist

02/01/2026

Parts don’t show up to ruin connection.
They show up to protect us.

When we slow the system, Self becomes more accessible again and from there, repair is possible.
The Love Blueprint
https://www.amazon.com.au/Love-Blueprint-Rewiring-Relationship-Ourselves/dp/1764234200

31/12/2025

Closing the year with quiet, breath, and a wider view.
Wishing you a blessed end of 2025 🤍

There may be parts of you that are tired,
and parts that are stronger, wiser, and quietly proud.
All of them belong.

If this year asked you to turn inward,
may you trust that what you met there
was not weakness, but courage.

Growth isn’t always becoming more.
Sometimes it’s remembering who you are,
and choosing not to leave yourself behind.

As this year closes,
may you meet every part of you with kindness,
and step into the next with steadiness and hope.

Out of office until 8 January.

Love,
Heidi Louise 🤍

24/12/2025

Christmas can hold many truths at once.

Some parts of us delight in the rituals, connection, laughter, beauty, rest.
Other parts may feel tender, overwhelmed, or shaped by past seasons that asked a lot of them.
Often, these parts exist side by side.

In Internal Family Systems, we understand that all parts make sense.
The parts that celebrate.
The parts that protect.
The parts that feel deeply.

This time of year can amplify old roles:
– the one who keeps the peace
– the one who performs happiness
– the one who carries family history in their body

And it can also awaken parts that feel nourished by love, tradition, and presence.

You don’t have to choose between joy and honesty.
You don’t need to exile pain to enjoy what’s good.
And you don’t need to minimise joy to honour what’s hard.

If it feels right, offer yourself something small today:
a softer breath,
a clear boundary,
a moment of presence,
or permission to fully enjoy what is here.

However Christmas meets you this year—
you are allowed to meet yourself gently.

🤍
Heidi Louise - Clinical Psychotherapist

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22/12/2025

Today was my last day in the clinic for the year.

A pause.
A breath.
A moment to look back.

I’m reflecting on The Love Blueprint
a book that once lived quietly inside me, now finished, released, and out in the world.
Its audiobook too fully voiced, completed, and shared.

In just a month and a half, this first print run has sold out.
That still takes my breath away.
Parts of me feel proud.
Parts of me feel humbled.
And from a steadier place, I feel deeply grateful.

I’m reflecting on the workshops completed this year—
the rooms filled, the conversations held, the courage witnessed
and the workshops now forming for 2026, still taking shape, still finding their voice.

I’m thinking of the countless brave souls who have walked through my door
and trusted me with their relationships, their pain, their hope.

To be invited into someone’s inner world is never ordinary.
It is sacred.
And I hold that responsibility with care.

I’m thinking of Paris—
IFS Level 2
the people I met there, the ones who now walk beside me.
Strangers who became mirrors.
Teachers who became companions.

I’m grateful for my family and friends,
for those who held me steady when things were hard,
and stayed when it was messy, uncertain, or unglamorous.

Because this year—like life—
has asked me to hold more than one truth at a time.

The beautiful.
The painful.
The boring.
The mundane.
The mind-expanding.

This isn’t a highlight reel.
It’s the full, breathing, complicated experience of being human
and learning to lead myself with more presence and compassion.

I welcome all of it.

As this year closes, I send a blessing of love, safety, and comfort
and a gentle encouragement, a quiet nudge,
to anyone who has been wondering whether therapy might be for you.

From my experience, I’d say: why not?

What’s the worst that could happen?
And just as importantly….
what’s the best thing that might?

Go gently with yourself and those around you this festive season, with love Heidi Louise

21/12/2025

As the year winds down, I’m pausing to check in 🤍

Not to judge.
Not to optimise.
Just to notice.

✨ What rituals already carried me this year — even quietly?
✨ What still feels nourishing… and what feels complete?
✨ What wants to be gently introduced?

Not resolutions.
Just invitations.

Maybe it’s:
• more slowness
• fewer draining conversations
• more moments in the body
• a pause before moving on

This isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about listening to who you already are — and responding with care.

No pressure. No fixing. Just presence ✨

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West End, QLD
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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 3pm

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https://www.heidilouisecounselling.org/

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