After navigating my own high-conflict divorce, I realized I didn't just need a lawyer - I needed a thinking partner. I created this practice to bridge that gap, combining lived experience with rigorous strategy to help you stop reacting to the chaos and start responding with a plan.
- Heidi Dinning
It’s Heidi’s gift of human connection that sets her apart. She has a unique ability to identify with people almost instantly and an intimate desire to help them find their best path forward. Her true heart and clear mind in the moment are the reasons why clients love working with her.
Get to know Heidi by watching this short video.
Heidi possesses a unique gift for connection, identifying with clients almost instantly to help them find their best path forward. Her combination of a "true heart" and a "clear mind" creates a safe, supportive space where clients feel truly understood and guided with grace, wit, and camaraderie.
Having navigated divorce both as a child watching her parents’ separation and later through her own high-conflict divorce, Heidi understands the isolation and overwhelm that comes with the process. This personal history ignited her passion to become the guide she never had—a thinking partner to walk beside those feeling bewildered and alone.
Acting as both emotional support and strategic guide, Heidi helps clients decouple emotion from the legal process to retain dignity and clarity. She collaborates with lawyers, therapists, and mediators, streamlining communication and ensuring everyone works towards the client’s goals. This collaborative approach reduces conflict, supports well-being, and leads to a smoother, more efficient divorce process.
Heidi leverages her corporate leadership, fundraising experience with organizations like the Canadian Women's Foundation and Alberta Cancer Foundation, and University of Calgary, along with certifications in Divorce, Recovery, and Co-Parenting, to provide strategic divorce coaching. She helps clients navigate the legal, financial, and emotional aspects of divorce with dignity and clarity.
Heidi is the mother of two daughters, a stepdaughter, and a stepson. Navigating life in a blended family has deepened her expertise in high-stakes communication and emotional intelligence. Her passion for community extends beyond her practice. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Lionheart Foundation (supporting adolescent mental health) and volunteers with Inn From the Cold and Meals on Wheels.When she isn't strategizing with clients, you can find Heidi in the mountains.
She is an avid skier, hiker, voracious reader, and is known for rallying her people into crazy games with the ultimate goal of serious belly laughs.
Heidi partners with Family Lawyers and Mediators to create more efficient files. By managing the client's emotional regulation and organizing their documentation before they step into your office, Heidi ensures they are prepared to make legal decisions rather than emotional ones.
Heidi partners with mediators to ensure clients arrive ready to negotiate, not react. By providing pre-mediation emotional regulation and organized documentation, Heidi enables clients to make rational decisions, leading to smoother sessions and more successful outcomes.
Heidi complements your therapeutic expertise by equipping clients with the practical tools they need to heal. Heidi manages emotional regulation, documentation, and communication strategies, freeing your clients to focus on growth and rebuilding their lives.
Heidi is a sought-after voice on high-conflict divorce strategy, co-parenting resilience, and recovering from narcissistic abuse. She is available for podcast interviews, keynotes, and expert commentary.
Heidi asked me all the right questions at all the right times. She listened to my needs and knew how to lead me to my own best answers with grace, wit and camaraderie. She helped me tease out really clear next steps during each and every session, which felt amazing because at the beginning of my sessions, I always showed up feeling so overwhelmed. Nothing about working with her felt forced. She’s an easy, thoughtful, brilliant person and I can’t recommend her enough.
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