Heidi Dudgeon is an artist, writer, illustrator,
business owner, entrepreneur, poet, mental health counselor and screenwriter with a BA in cultural anthropology and MA in Counseling with supplementary clinical training in wellness, health psychology, pain management and grief and loss. She has been a gallery-represented painter and a champion of the healing properties of art-making, instructing expressive arts classes for children over the course of her lifetime. Heidi began her career in public relations and marketing for Sesame Street Live/VEE Corporation. Heidi also worked as a freelance entertainment journalist, interviewing notable artists such a Victoria McKenzie Childs, Biz Markie and Newfound Glory to name a few. Heidi also freelanced for CKC Public Relations for their Soap Opera Mania account. As a screenwriter, Heidi has been professionally recognized and awarded for her comedic writing in the industry. Heidi has owned a successful, private, integrative mental health practice since 2013 and has a strong professional interest in using multicultural, expressive, narrative and integrative approaches to help others heal both individually through her private practice and universally through her art and writing. In 2012, Heidi edited a manuscript on healing through painful divorce. Mostly, Heidi is determined to help others access joy and laughter to overcome “problems with living.”.