Heidi Pimental

Aloha! The Promise of life is love, joy, and peace. Yet, often life is just the opposite. We experience, hurt, rejection, loneliness, fears, disappointments, and or difficult relationships which makes it difficult to function in healthy ways. Life is not easy. Did you know that you are not meant to be on this journey alone? I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Hawaii. Please contact me, if you are looking for a Christ-centered perspective to navigate your real-life issues. I look forward to meeting you! Heidi

My approach

These Collaborative approaches include: being Christ-centered, intuitive use of psychodynamic therapy, rational emotive therapy, attachment theory, humanistic/client-centered, mindfulness-based, cognitive, behavioral, CBT, Interpersonal, Gottman, SYMBIS for pre-marital and SYMBIS+ for marriage, family, parenting, grief and loss, childhood and trauma. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, developmental. Often childhood, cultural, and family-of-origin experiences, imprint rules, decisions, choices, coping skills, and improper perspectives that cause complex development stress and trauma in adulthood and affect daily functioning and livelihood. Addressing the long-term impact of relational trauma that comes in the form of attachment, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma. Adopting a new framework and mismatching experiences of care and proper responses in a therapeutic setting creates a new internal framework to meet the demands of our lives with healthy resiliency.

My focus

98% of Christian clients, experience stress in work, school, and relationships, anxiety, depression, lack of discipline, unmotivated, self-care, work and relationship transitions, grief and loss, difficult marriage/relationship dynamics and communications, strengthening, guidance, and navigating difficult current or past life issues, experiences, and relationships. Often childhood experiences, imprint coping skills, and improper perspectives that cause complex development stress and trauma in adulthood and affect daily functioning and livelihood. Adopting a new framework and mismatching experiences of care and proper responses creates a new internal framework to meet the demands of our lives with healthy resiliency.

My communication style

Through the therapeutic relationship, client enters into a safe space of openness, acceptance, non-pathologizing, empathetic, non-judgmental, honest, cheerful and hopeful. Client is seen, valued, important and matters. Additionally, the counseling environment is a place to discover client strengths and develops new perspectives of self, others and the world view.

My journey to mental healthcare

Initially, I entered into MA Counseling program to educate myself to better support those in the community, church, and ministries. Through the process, I gained transformative knowledge and experienced the ability to help people to heal and become free. This led me to consider a career path and licensure in Hawaii.

My goals for you

Engagement into a therapeutic experience that will be healing and transformational. Identifying key goals in the initial sessions and making adjustments as goals are achieved or modified. You will learn how to regulate and understand emotions; develop new skills for managing self, time, stress; navigate relational conflict and communication issues in marriage or in parent-child; self-care; and a deeper relationship with Christ and understanding of your Christ identity. Often, a new blueprint for supporting relational health is essential for a lifelong outlook and experience of peace, love, and joy. A great emphasis on understanding is established of human pain and suffering. physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Gain understanding of how the body keeps the score (VanKolk).

My first session with you

First, depending on current issues of client, there is dedication to reducing and addressing immediate needs. In 1-2 meetings, goal is to build relational equity for client and therapist, introductions, reviewing confidentiality, counseling policies, and process. Next, assessing clients through a process of listening, sharing, and understanding what brought them to counseling and determining what they need. Addressing severe or serious issues of suicide, deep grief from loss of suicide or other, also immediate evaluation of client's emotional condition to determine urgency of process and support. Finally, a brief summary and evaluation of client will be presented with timeline of support and suggested, collaborative first steps and scheduling next appointment.