Description
This group uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support therapist who may experience clients who have suicidal thoughts. In the group you will learn how to come to suicidal thoughts with more compassion and curiosity to help the client transform how they relate to the thoughts.
In the group you will be able to bring forward clients you are working with (without sharing identifying information) to gather support on being a better therapist for them.
In the group there is space to work with your own parts around suicide. This might be therapist parts that get scared about suicide. Or parts that have strong feelings due to personal loss. Or any feelings that come up as you think about suicide.
Creating more compassion and acknowledging your own parts in relations to suicide will help you be present with your client and support them in a more attuned way.
Group Therapist
Heidi Lindeman is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor located in Longmont, CO. Heidi is passionate about helping clients who are searching to live authentically because their daily lives have lost any sense of fulfillment. Many of Heidi’s clients are mom's who feel emotionally exhausted because they take care of everyone but themselves, including their children, friends, and partners. While these clients look like they’re successful at achieving a life balance to an outsider, they feel disengaged, frustrated, and like they need something more in their lives but can’t quite name their needs. They can see a future of how they want their kids to be and how they want to feel in their life, yet aren't sure how to get there. They have experiences of doing what their parents did and hate this.
Heidi’s own experience with mental health issues leads to an empathetic, open style. Heidi is an Internal Family Systems therapist with additional training and certification. Clients explore their internal worlds to discover how they fit authentically into the larger context around them, including within their immediate families, larger networks and their communities. Heidi also leverages her Master’s degree in Divinity to help clients explore their sense of life purpose, meaning, and ideas about higher powers. Heidi creates a calm, present space for clients to think aloud about what they want out of their lives. She provides empathetic support and helps clients draw connections between their thoughts, feelings, internal beliefs, and desires.
Heidi earned a Master’s degree in Divinity as well as a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling. She empowers clients to listen to their spiritual needs and to put their own mental health as a first priority. Her clients begin to feel engaged in their lives again after long stretches of "momming".
