The Perinatal Wellness Centre★ 5.0 (9 reviews)1000 Windmill Rd Unit 9Opens today at 9:00 AMView clinic

Heidi Meagher

CounsellingBurnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth

About Heidi

Heidi Meagher has been a social worker since 2009, working in areas related to parenting. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, a Bachelor of Social Work, and a Master of Social Work. Her own experience with perinatal and postpartum mental health led her to obtaining her certification in Perinatal Mental Health (CC-PMH), Birth and Reproductive Trauma (CC-BRT), Perinatal Grief and Loss (CC-PGL), and Menopause Mental Health Provider Certification (MMHPC). She also has lived experience with reproductive challenges, having ADHD, parenting a child with ADHD, and as a military spouse. She has been providing support to clients since 2022 related to perinatal and reproductive mental health. Heidi has training in a variety of therapy modalities and integrates aspects from many of these in her work. These include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Feedback Informed Treatment, and Narrative Therapy. She has taken CBT and IFS training specializing in working with perinatal clients. Heidi has experience working with individuals who are striving to become parents, as well as birthing and non birthing parents who have become parents through gestation and/or adoption and have experienced: • Difficult pregnancies including hyperemesis gravidarum and high-risk pregnancies. • Fear, anxiety, or stress around pregnancy, birth, or becoming a parent. • Physical and/or emotional birth trauma. • Prenatal and/or postpartum anxiety, or postadoption anxiety. • Prenatal and/or postpartum depression, or postadoption depression. • Prenatal and/or postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder. • Postpartum rage. • Pregnancy termination and loss, including miscarriages, still births, termination for medical reasons, and abortion. • Reproductive challenges including difficulty trying to conceive and infertility. • Mental health changes associated with perimenopause or menopause. Heidi is not a couples therapist, but can provide relationship support for parents or those looking to become parents. Relationship support can include: psychoeducation on relationship dynamics and the affects on physical and psychological wellbeing, assessing relationship strain, noticing and naming stress patterns, encouraging co-regulation, basic communication skills, fair division of labour, and validation and normalization of relationship strain.