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Ms Heidi Ruef

Gender
Female

Contact Details:

Primary Contact Phone
0477 187 768

Primary Contact Email
[email protected]


Practice Name
Skills4LifePsychology
Practice Address
192 Delancey Street
Ormiston QLD 4160
Australia

  

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Biography:

Heidi is a registered psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in providing individual and group-based psychological interventions, using a client-centered approach to assessment and treatment.
Areas of special interest:
* Individual and couples counselling
* Grief and loss
* Guidance and support in finding new ways of improving quality of life
* Developing new techniques and strategies to improve performance and renew vitality
* Mindfulness to increase health and well being
* Techniques and strategies to improve performance and renewed vitality
* Focus on choices rather than dysfunction
* Quit drugs, alcohol, or other unwanted habits
* Recover from anxiety and depression and other disabling experiences
* Creating hope and compassion
Heidi focuses on building rapport with her clients based on trust and mutual respect to assist clients to gain an understanding of their own behaviors and how to manage these outside the therapy room. Heidi respects the role of creating an effective therapeutic relationship facilitating a context in which change can be explored and pursued.
Her hope is that clients feel supported, listened to, and understood during the therapeutic journey, a journey based in empathy, trust, and cultural sensitivity toward progress and client’s identified personal goals.

Other Languages spoken:

German

Services:


Teleheath
Yes

Funding
EAP | Medicare | NDIS | Private health | Private Pay | Workcover

Areas of Focus



Client Type
Young Adult | Adult | Older Adult | Refugee/Asylum Seeker | International student

Disability
NDIS

LGBTQIA++ Friendly
LGBTQIA++ Friendly

Mental Health
Addiction | Anger management | Anxiety | Bipolar disorder | Bullying | Depression | Eating disorder | Ecopsychology | Grief and loss | Hoarding | Identity/Self esteem | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Other | Perinatal | Personality disorder | Psychosis/Dissociative Disorders | PTSD | Relaxation Training | Self-Harm | Sleep disorder | Spiritual/Existential emergencies | Stress/Burnout | Suicidal thoughts | Trauma

Organisational Psychology
Coaching and mentoring

Physical Health Concerns
Cancer Support | Chronic Fatigue | Chronic Pain | End of life support | Rehabilitation after injury | Vision impairment

Relationships
Couples Counselling | Mediation | Separation/Divorce

Schooling / Educational Issues
Schooling Educational Issues

Sport / Performance Psychology
Performing under pressure | Relaxation/ mindfulness

Therapeutic Approaches/Interventions
ACT | CBT | DBT | Emotion Focused Therapy | Exposure Therapy | Gottman Therapy | Humanistic | IPT | Mindfulness based cognitive therapy | Motivational interviewing | Narrative | Psychodynamic | Psycho-education | Schema therapy | Solutions focused/Brief Therapy | Trauma informed therapy

Wellbeing
Existential psychology | Life coaching | Mindfulness | Supportive Counselling | Wellbeing

Work Related
Employee Assistance Program | Mental health professional | Rehabilitation | Workplace issues