Heidi Louise Counselling

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 ✨

18/12/2025

My audiobook The Love Blueprint is now live ✨

Written and narrated by me, The Love Blueprint is now available on most major audiobook platforms.

This project has been deeply personal — and I’m truly grateful that these reflections on love, attachment, and healing are now accessible to so many people, in a format that can be listened to gently, in your own time.

A heartfelt thank you to Simone from Brisbane Audiobooks for your support with recording, coaching, and publishing the audio version of The Love Blueprint.

I hope it meets you where you are 💛

With love,
Heidi Louise

17/12/2025

I had the pleasure of joining Simone Feiler on her podcast to talk about my book The Love Blueprint. We explored the patterns we carry into relationships, how trauma and attachment shape love, and what it looks like to build connection with awareness, compassion, and choice. A rich, honest conversation — link below 🎧

https://youtu.be/fqVPBiEOt34?si=r3ErM02_9Yp-yGxH

17/12/2025

An Interview I did about my book the Love Blueprint on The Simone Feiler Podcasthttps://youtu.be/fqVPBiEOt34?si=Vj5Spe50Vvb-FlGH

✅ Why We Love The Way We Do: Trauma, Attachment and Healing - Chatting with Author Heidi Louise. 👇🙏 Watch The Video & Don’t Forget to Like, Comment, Subscr...

15/12/2025

Collective trauma can stir many different parts of us. You don’t have to hold it alone.
Support is available 24/7

Australian supports (24/7):
Lifeline 13 11 14
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
Su***de Call Back Service 1300 659 467
13YARN 13 92 76
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
Emergency: 000

Holding compassion for all those affected 🤍

13/12/2025

The Two-Day Gottman Therapy Couples Immersion is an alternative to traditional weekly therapy.
Instead of spreading change over months, this format gives couples uninterrupted time to de-escalate conflict, understand long-standing patterns, and begin rebuilding trust and connection in a safe, structured way.

Over two days, couples work privately and intensively with highly experienced Gottman Couples Therapist, Heidi Louise, in a safe, trauma-informed therapeutic space. This immersion combines Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Level 3), Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed emotional work, and relationship science grounded in trauma-aware, compassion-based support.

This deep, structured experience helps couples:
• Heal and repair past hurts and unresolved resentment
• Learn how to make repairs and rebuild trust after emotional injuries
• Improve conflict management skills
• Strengthen communication, emotional safety, and understanding
• Increase fondness, admiration, and appreciation
• Deepen trust, commitment, and long-term security
• Understand the skills required for a stable, loving, intimate relationship

The immersion creates intentional space to explore and shift long-standing relational patterns, reduce distress, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

This immersion is especially helpful for couples who feel stuck in recurring conflict, are healing after betrayal or relational trauma, or simply feel disconnected and unsure how to move forward.

Your therapist, Heidi Louise, is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Level 3 Gottman Couples Therapist, and IFS-trained practitioner with 13 years’ experience working with individuals, couples, and families.

🗓 2026 dates: Jan 23–24, Mar 20–21, Apr 3–4, Jun 12–13
💰 Investment: 4000AUD (pre-session, immersion, resources, follow-up)

If this feels like it might be the right next step for you and your partner, you can submit an enquiry via the link to my website in my bio to learn more or request a date. Email: hello@heidilouise.org

12/12/2025

As the year winds down, relationship stress often rises.
Not because something is wrong, but because tired and overwhelmed parts in both people are closer to the surface.

IFS invites us to look beneath the reaction and ask,
“What part of me is activated right now, and what is it needing?”

Gottman’s research reminds us that small moments of attunement matter most —
especially when energy is low and emotions are high.

This season isn’t about fixing everything.
It’s about slowing down, softening toward each other,
and remembering you’re on the same team.

10/12/2025

As the year begins to wind down,
you may notice tired, overwhelmed, or tender parts rising to the surface.
IFS invites you to pause… to turn inward… and gently ask:

“Which parts of me are here right now?”
“Which parts need my attention?”

Ask this part what would feel helpful.
Maybe it simply wants to be noticed,
to be acknowledged after carrying so much.

Maybe there’s something small
that would feel supportive —
a breath, a pause, a softer pace,
a moment where you say,
“I’m here with you. You’re not alone.”

You don’t have to fix anything.
Just meet what’s here with presence and compassion
as the year comes to a close.

07/12/2025

‘I love how you tenderly write about Self as the “innate, undamaged core, the calm, curious compassionate, connected wise and expansive essence” that we all have inside us. I appreciate how, in your beautifully crafted book, The Love
Blueprint, you invite us to expand our internal wisdom (the Self) with tenderness and wisdom. In turn, we can
begin to see others with more curiosity and compassion. This is a book for anyone curious about their inner world. Thank you, Heidi.’

Lena Lundell, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Counselling, IFS Practitioner (Level 2)
www.lenalundellcounselling.org