Are you facing life’s challenges and seeking supportive guidance to help you navigate through them? We provide compassionate counselling and psychological services, tailored to your unique journey.
At Skills4LifePsychology, we understand that like the butterfly – a symbol of transformation and growth – you too can emerge stronger from life’s trials. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or significant life changes such as career shifts, becoming a parent, or transitioning to an empty nest, we are here to help.
Facing end-of-life transitions or coping with the loss of a pet? We can also provide compassionate support to guide you through these sensitive times.
Our approach combines personalised support with evidence-based strategies, designed to help you build resilience, enhance well-being, and achieve lasting personal growth. You can choose from face-to-face therapy or our convenient tele-health options.
Located in the tranquil Bayside area of Ormiston, Redlands, South East Queensland, Skills4LifePsychology offers a nurturing, home-like environment tailored to support individuals aged 16+ and couples.
HEIDI RUEF
PRINCIPAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Heidi is a registered psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), with over 20+ years’ experience working in the field of psychology. She worked in both the public and private sectors and has experience in providing individual and group-based intervention. She uses a client-centred approach to assessment and treatment. Many clients value her wisdom and extensive experience, feeling comfortable discussing their challenges with a highly qualified professional.
Areas of interest:
- Individual and couples counselling
- Grief and loss
- Guidance and support in finding new ways of improving quality of life
- Learning new techniques and strategies to improve performance and renew vitality
- Mindfulness to increase health and well being
- Discover techniques and strategies to improve performance and renewed vitality
- Focus on choices rather than dysfunction
- Quit drugs, alcohol, or any other unwanted habit
- Recover from anxiety and depression and other disabling experiences
- Create hope and compassion
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Jung
Heidi focuses on building rapport with her clients based on trust and mutual respect to assist clients to gain an understanding of their own behaviours and how to manage these outside the therapy room. Heidi respects the role of creating an effective therapeutic relationship facilitating a context in which change can be explored and pursued. Her hope is that clients feel supported, listened to, and understood during the therapeutic journey, a journey based in empathy, trust, and cultural sensitivity toward progress and client’s identified personal goals.
Pet Loss Support Group
Losing a pet can leave us with a strong sense of loss. Studies show pet loss can feel as profound as the loss of a beloved friend or family member.
Often, we are given advice to get a replacement animal to help us heal, but the truth is, pet loss can be very profound and long lasting, making it difficult to move on.
If you would like to sit and share with others who have experienced the same grief, supported and facilitated by an experienced local psychologist, please get in touch.
Heidi Ruef at Skills4Life Psychology, is passionate about supporting people experiencing grief and loss and among other areas, focuses on the unique area of pet loss.
Heidi conducts quarterly, complementary small group sessions in her private practice in Ormiston with her therapy dog, Socks.
