At Barefoot and Balanced, we love watching our clients progress and evolve. We are honored to support them in enhancing their well-being and achieving greater life satisfaction.
Frankly, it's why we do what we do!
Let's begin a journey together.
Our counselors are highly skilled in guiding clients through a wide range of mental health challenges. Mood disorders like anxiety, depression, and grief are addressed with compassion and evidence-based approaches, helping clients build resilience, find balance, and reclaim their sense of well-being.
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Additionally, each of counselors specializes in therapies for specific mental health
struggles based on their training and experience.
We're here for YOU!
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Our ultimate goal is to support each client's individual growth through unprecedented support, unwavering compassion, and intentional skill-building.
We seek to encourage our clients through whatever challenges face them in the present, and hold their proverbial hands as they discover their inner strength and resources.
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Meet our Founder, Heide
Heide Perry-Bringman is the mother of a thriving young adult, a nationally certified and dual-licensed professional counselor, a writer, a creativity enthusiast, and a long-time business owner. She loves supporting people to live their best life and strives to help clients achieve real, lasting results.
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She's the kid who has known what she wanted to do since high school. When her close friend went through a family tragedy and did not have access to therapy, a passion was sparked. Her friend's parents were Deaf and therefore could not find a therapist with whom to process their child's death. Why? Because few - if any - therapists in their area were fluent in American Sign Language. At age 15 she decided that was a problem she wanted to solve. Heide attended the only Deaf university in the world as a hearing person and obtained her graduate degree with honors.
Her passion to help marginalized populations only grew as she personally experienced postpartum depression and anxiety. She then leaned into learning about alternative relationship styles while living in the hub of polyamorous America. Heide's heart has always been invested in meeting the needs of underserved groups, and she loves offering non-judgmental access to positivity-based support.