Ms Heidi Nichilo

Registered Social Worker

“I provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy to support healing, resilience, and personal growth. Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, or life transitions, I offer a safe, client-centered space to help you gain clarity, develop coping skills, and create meaningful change.”

About Me

I work alongside you to process challenging emotions and build lasting resilience. Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, past trauma, or big life changes? I offer practical strategies to help you navigate these experiences. Our sessions provide a safe space to explore patterns and gain new perspectives. You'll develop tools for daily life. Clients find my approach helps them move from confusion to confident action, fostering genuine growth.

Approach

We pay attention to the moments you notice—when anxiety spikes, memories resurface, or decisions feel impossible—and use those moments to guide each session's focus. Sessions in Ottawa or online, conducted in English, are steady and collaborative, paced to your tolerance with clear steps and gentle experiments between meetings. I combine grounding practices, story work and practical problem-solving so insights translate into everyday actions. This approach tends to help adults facing relationship shifts, parenting strain or the aftermath of trauma move toward clearer choices and steadier days.

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Basic Information

Ottawa, Canada

In-person & Online

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Services

Services Offered:

Divorce Counseling
Counselling for individuals or couples going through separation or divorce, addressing the emotional, practical, and relational dimensions.
Trauma Counseling
Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.
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Free Consultation
A no-cost initial session to meet the therapist, discuss needs, and decide whether they are the right fit before committing.
Psychotherapy
In-depth therapeutic work that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting psychological change.
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Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.
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Social Work
A profession that supports individuals and families with mental health, welfare, housing, and access to community resources.
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Supervision
Professional oversight for therapists and counsellors, providing guidance, ethical support, and reflective space for their clinical work.
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Online Therapy
Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.
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Training
Professional development programmes for mental health practitioners, including workshops, courses, and continuing education.

Works With:

Adults
Individuals
Organisations
Parents

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

Anxiety
Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.
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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Divorce Counseling
Counselling for individuals or couples going through separation or divorce, addressing the emotional, practical, and relational dimensions.
Abuse
Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.
Parenting Support
Guidance for the psychological challenges of raising children, including discipline, communication, co-parenting, and managing the emotional demands of parenthood.
Family Issues
Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.
Trauma
The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.
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