Dr. Heidi Toivonen

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I’m a Doctor in Psychology with 10 years of experience from coaching, counselling, psychological evaluations, giving workshops, and leading groups. I focus on high-performance coaching and helping people live a meaningful life as their best possible self. If you are committed and willing to do your best, I will take you through an individualized journey of goal-designing, skill mapping, and using a variety of tools to reach your goals.

As a psychologist and coach I use a combination of different therapeutic approaches with the focus of always finding whatever works for my client. My practice is empowerment-oriented, focused on the present instead of the past, on the good instead of the bad, and on the solutions instead of the problems. Due to my background in literature and language studies and history with discursive reseach metholodogies, I have a sensitivity for language and for how we socially and culturally construct different psychological phenomena.

Psychological tests and evaluation methods in my toolpack:

Adults, cognitive: WAIS IV, WAIS-III, WMS-III, WCST, TMT, B-W, ROCF

Adults, personality: Rorschach (Exner’s Comprehensive System), MMPI, TAT, ORT, PRF, PK5, WZT, SCT, and HTP; various questionnaires related to attitudes, dreamjob, etc.

Additional courses:

Motivational interview as a tool in client work Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland, 2018

Leading a therapeutic group for people with social anxiety Hogrefe, Helsinki, Finland, 2018

Rorschach Comprehensive System The Finnish Rorschach Society, Helsinki, Finland, 2017

Basic course in hypnosis Scientific Hypnosis in Finland, Helsinki, Finland, 2015

Mindfulness-based stress reduction The Finnish Psychological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 2012

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