Certified Nutrition Coach - understanding of the role of food and nutrition to health and healing

Certified MindBody Practitioner (300-hour) - knowledge of the connection between the mind and body and their part in achieving optimal wellness

Wisconsin Certified Peer Specialist - lived experience thriving with mental health challenges and trauma

Wisconsin Certified Parent Peer Specialist - lived experience parenting a child or children with mental health and/or substance abuse challenges

Certificates in Complementary and Integrative Health, Holistic and Integrative Health, and Integrative Behavioral Health

In addition to her Bachelor’s degree, certifications, and lived experience, Heidi has completed extensive training in strengths-based, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and culturally competent practices. She has worked as a Peer and Parent Peer Specialist in CCS (Comprehensive Community Services) providing support to individuals with mental health and substance abuse challenges. Heidi is active as a consultant and advocate on many committees, workgroups, and advisory panels at the city, county, state, and national level. She has also established a personal wellness plan that eliminated her migraines, healed her intestinal permeability, allowed her to discontinue thyroid medications, and improved her mood. Heidi believes in walking the walk!

A Sample of Many Other Completed Trainings and Summits:

* National Advocate Credentialing Program - training and experience advocating for self and others

* WRAP Seminar One (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)

* Motivational Interviewing Foundational Workshop

* Mental Health First Aid

* Emotional CPR

* Protective Factors

* Understanding Your Adolescent

* PTSD Summit

* Overcoming Narcissistic Abuse Summit

* Heal Your Thyroid and Reverse Hashimoto's Summit

* Gut Brain Lymph Summit

* Fatty Liver Summit

* Lyme Summit

* Dental Health Summit

* Mold Summit

* Reverse Alzheimer's 4.0 Summit

* The Supplement Series

SPECIALTY AREAS:

Lifestyle Skills: Incorporating healthy foods, physical fitness, adequate sleep, positive habits

Empowerment Skills: Setting boundaries, self-advocacy, building resilience and coping skills

Personal Development Skills: Building self-awareness, self-compassion, intuition, a sense of wholeness

Relationship Skills: Healing from various forms of abuse, attachment, trust, and abandonment issues, exposure to narcissism, gaslighting, and the impacts of substance abuse by others

Wellness Skills: Understanding mind-body connection, managing PTSD, anxiety, panic, trauma, OCD, body dysmorphia, being highly-sensitive and empathic, grief/loss, and chronic health conditions

Life Skills: Practicing organization, time-management, financial responsibility, career exploration

Spiritual Skills: Developing a sense of purpose, meaning, fulfillment, passion

Environmental Skills: Considering ways to create a healthier personal space at home, work, in the community

Heidi has a passion for helping others and improving systems. She hopes to make a difference by assisting others with recognizing their strengths, building support networks, connecting to their communities and resources, and becoming empowered. She firmly believes: “If you have been in the abyss, the hopeless dark hole, and have had the courage and tenacity to pull yourself out, the most generous thing you can do is reach a hand back to those still there.” Anonymous

During her free time, Heidi enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading and continual learning, puzzles, traveling, biking, hiking, kayaking, tennis, disc golfing, gardening, and volunteering.