Mind your Brain

Spécialités

Heike at Mind your Brain provides services to people who experience mental health/​emotional difficulties (e.g. depression, anxiety, feeling socially isolated) following an acquired brain injury (e.g. brain tumor, traumatic brain injury, brain infection) or as a consequence of chemotherapy, and Learning disability (as appropriate).

Mental health issues following an acquired brain injury may look like mental health issues due to other causal factors. However, to successfully address the emotional consequences of an acquired brain injury, the roots of the difficulties must be addressed as well, which oftentimes are cognitive in nature (i.e. memory difficulties, feeling overwhelmed with everyday life demands).

Services include cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury counselling (adjusting to life/​coping with brain injury).

Heike also provides services to support people who experience memory difficulties as a result of aging (healthy or pathological cognitive aging)

Historique

Fondé en 2012.

Mind your Brain was conceived of as an independent adjunct to managed care for people living and coping with brain injury (including mild traumatic brain injury). Because such services are very limited in the community, Mind your Brain was set up to provide such services to clients who require more intensive services and/​or counselling after brain injury.

At the same time, the realization that the society’s aging population is growing and with it fears of cognitive decline and dementia, MInd your Brain has also included services to people who experience memory difficulties due to aging decline.

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Heike D.

Gérant de commerce

Heike (RCC, RRP) is a Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist/​Brain Injury Counsellor with extensive clinical experience in the field of Cognitive Rehabilitation. She has been mainly working with clients with traumatic brain injury in an outpatient setting. Prior to these engagements, she has spent years working in aging labs, focusing on healthy as well as pathological aging, and how either impacts cognition throughout the lifespan. Thus, her research interests and activities have spanned healthy and pathological aging, brain injury, as well as brain disease. All of her academic education has been geared towards understanding how the healthy brain creates our experiences (i.e. thinking, emotions, and behaviour), the interrelationships between these experiences and other factors (internal and environmental influences), and how aging and/​or brain insult (e.g. trauma or disease) can impact and compromise a person’s functioning.