Heather Hopkins

When someone finally decides to reach out, Heather Hopkins has usually already been on their mind for a while — they’ve been managing, pushing through, quietly hoping things will shift on their own. She works with children, teens, adults, and families in St. John’s navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, ADHD, grief, mood challenges, parenting stress, and the slow erosion of self-esteem that builds when life feels unmanageable.

Heather brings over fifteen years of experience as a Canadian Certified Counsellor to sessions that are practical by design. She doesn’t believe counselling is just a space to talk — it’s a place to build real, usable skills. Clients often leave with handouts, articles, or book recommendations that carry the work forward between appointments, including support for the kind of scattered focus and half-finished intentions that become even harder to shake when every notification is engineered to pull attention away. Her approach draws from cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, trauma-informed practices, play therapy, and exposure and response prevention.

Heather holds advanced post-graduate training in play therapy, sandplay therapy, trauma treatment, and ADHD, and practises within a setting deliberately designed to feel calm and welcoming the moment someone walks in. Online sessions are also available.