Heidi Arntzen

Heidi Arntzen is an AASW-qualified social worker who provides counselling for adults dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. With six years of clinical experience across mental health and alcohol and other drug settings, she focuses on helping people build understanding of their patterns, strengthen coping skills, and move toward sustainable wellbeing. Her approach is practical and person centred, blending emotional support with tools that can be used in everyday life.

She works with people who have carried responsibility for others and who need a space to attend to their own needs. Areas of additional focus include family and relationship stress, caregiver strain, bereavement, consequences of domestic violence, hoarding, and life adjustments such as separation and blended family challenges. Heidi also supports those navigating health impacts, including cancer and end-of-life concerns.

Alongside professional practice, she draws on personal lived experience supporting a loved one through significant mental ill health and negotiating breast cancer. That background informs a calm, nonjudgmental style that aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable. Her methods are grounded in strengths-based, trauma-informed, and person-centred principles to help people identify practical strategies that align with their values and daily life.