Heidi Wassersleben is an Intern Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. She works with adolescents, families, and women navigating anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sleep difficulties, perimenopause, and reproductive health transitions.
Earlier in her career, Heidi worked in child and youth mental health across residential and community settings — delivering individual and group counselling, providing crisis intervention and safety planning, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
Before returning to graduate study, Heidi spent over a decade in senior corporate and human resources leadership — managing teams, advocating for employee mental health and psychological safety, and developing workplace programs. That experience gives her a practical understanding of the pressures facing professionals managing demanding careers alongside relationships, family, and the physical and emotional transitions of midlife.
Her clinical work with adolescents and families focuses on anxiety, school-related stress, and emotional regulation — supporting teens and their families in building better communication and more sustainable coping strategies at home and in academic settings. Her women’s health focus includes perimenopause, infertility, perinatal loss, and the identity shifts that accompany reproductive transitions. She also supports clients navigating anxiety-related sleep concerns and grief.
Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy within a trauma-informed framework. She holds certification in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and has attended advanced training with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté on trauma and the body.
Heidi works under clinical supervision at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers virtual counselling throughout BC.
Client Focus
- Adolescents & Teens
- Families & Parents
- Women
- Adults
Specialties
- Teen Anxiety & Emotional Dysregulation
- Family & School Stress
- Perimenopause & Women’s Mental Health
- Reproductive Health & Perinatal Loss
- Work and School Burnout l Sleep & Anxiety
- Grief & Loss
Approach
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Informed
