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Welcome to Heart Expression!
Heidi Gaspar is an experienced Psychologist & Creative Arts Therapist who provides an eclectic mix of clinical counselling and Psychological therapeutic services, using Emotion Focussed Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Expressive Therapies such as Art Therapy, Sandplay therapy, Music and Mindfulness for people of all ages across the life span. Heidi founded Heart Expression in 2009.
Approach to Psychological Counselling
Assisting individuals, couples and families I use an eclectic mix of evidence-based approaches from counselling psychology, family therapy and expressive therapy modalities. My approach is aimed at helping you to create and nurture relationships, develop self-understanding, try new coping strategies and improve your communication skills from a position of greater self-awareness and intentionality. I aim to assist you in creating meaning, happiness and peace in your life, to enhance your personal relationship with yourself, connect to your dreams and passion, to find contentment and inner-happiness, leading to more joy in your life.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterised by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events, and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a fast heart rate and shakiness. These impact on our ability to flourish in our daily lives.
Affective Disorders
Mood disorders fall into the basic groups of elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (commonly called clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression).
Developmental Differences
Developmental disorders comprise a group of psychiatric conditions originating in childhood that involve difficulties in different areas. These disorders comprise of developmental language disorder, learning disorders, motor disorders and autism spectrum disorders. We can help you with ASD assessments for Tweens, Teens and Adults.
Somatic Disorders
A somatic symptom disorder, formerly known as a somatoform disorder is any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder (e.g., panic disorder).
Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person’s physical or mental health. They include binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa where people eat very little and thus have a low body weight, bulimia nervosa where people eat a lot, then purge the food and other eating disorders.
Device Addiction Disorders
We do not deal with substance abuse but rather problematic, compulsive use of online games, social media and devices that results in significant impairment in an individual’s functioning and coping capacity. This impacts life in various domains over a prolonged period of time. We help client`s build skills to sit with discomfort to widen their window of tolerance.
Individual, couples and family therapy.
Counselling and psychotherapy can change your life. It is an experience of self-discovery which can lead you to many of the answers to complications and difficulties in your life. The alliance between you and your therapist is paramount and highly personal. You are exploring and discovering wounded parts of yourself so safety and trust are of utmost importance to the success of your therapy. It is incredibly important that you feel safe and accepted by your therapist.
Modalities
Our Approach
I believe that therapy & counselling can help people find ways to integrate the various parts of ourselves that are rejected or unresolved and process experiences which impact on our psychological health and emotional or physical wellbeing. Therapy can also help us to take proactive steps towards living a more authentic, meaningful and connected life, helping to challenge the status quo and find courage to try something different. Psychology offers a possibility to discuss and sound out solutions to existing problems and to strengthen personal relationships, which positively impacts all areas of life.
Assisting individuals, couples, parents and families I use an eclectic mix of evidence-based approaches from counselling psychology, family therapy and expressive therapy modalities. My approach is aimed at helping you to create and nurture relationships, develop self-understanding, try new coping strategies and improve your communication skills from a position of greater self-awareness and intentionality. I aim to assist you in creating meaning, happiness and peace in your life, to enhance your personal relationship with yourself, connect to your dreams and passion, to find contentment and inner-happiness, leading to more joy in your life.
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
Carl Rogers
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Face to face or online consults are available at Central Park Suites in Malvern East.
Heidi offers a warm, collaborative, empathic authentic approach to enable you to achieve your goals during each session. She has advanced training in the treatment of mental health issues using a variety of techniques and evidence-based strategies seen in current research.
Transformation takes courage
At Heart Expression we care genuinely about our clients and feel privileged to be part of the restorative and revolutionary process that therapy offers.
Topics of interest
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