HEIDI McBRATNEY

Heidi McBratney brings a depth of wisdom, insight, compassion, and encouragement that enables her to guide others to develop their innate ability to grow and flourish from the many life challenges we all experience. Her goal is to support others in developing new life-long skills that increase their awareness and balance, giving them a roadmap to emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Heidi focused her own education, training, and personal growth in ways that gave her the skills and wisdom to support others of all ages, cultures, and life experiences. She has been a practitioner in counselling, energy medicine techniques, and teaching for more than 30 years. She has achieved recognition as an expert in traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and healing the soul back to wholeness.

Her most significant education has been through her world travels and learning from various Elders of different indigenous peoples who encouraged her to share the ways of returning home to one’s truth and one’s soul. Heidi has been given guidance and support from various Native Elders in Canada and the United States, and from many Elders in South America, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Israel. She also completed advanced training with The Four Winds Society in Shamanic Studies, as well as The Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She became a teacher for The Four Winds Society supporting their Canadian program. 

Heidi McBratney completed her formal undergraduate education in psychology at York University. She later went on to earn her Masters in Counselling Psychology from The Adler Institute of Professional Psychology. Heidi is a Certified Member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals, a Diplomate Member of The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and a Compassion Fatigue Specialist through The International Institute of Traumatology.

In addition to working from her own private practice, Heidi McBratney has taught for various educational facilities, organizations, and at conferences on a variety of topics, with a specific focus on supporting growth and building strengths that come out of trauma and difficult life experiences. She has taught awareness and recovery from vicarious trauma at graduate universities and at the Attorney General’s Office. In addition, she has provided education on victim sensitivity to frontline Metro Toronto police officers, taught detectives at the Police College in Ontario, and addressed a nationwide conference on policing.

Heidi has worked with a wide range of populations including those identified with mental health concerns, criminal histories, survivors of various life traumas including disasters, and people in the dying process and their families. Her career has included consultation and guidance to agencies to enhance staff growth and morale, so that those groups can better assist the clients who have to access services.

Heidi believes that by supporting one person at a time to remember the light of their soul, this has a ripple effect within that person’s family and community that brings further illumination and peace. Her book, Answering the Call of Your Spirit, was published in 2021 in Canada.