Heidi works brain injury rehab services both in groups and individually. In reference to group work, click here. When working individually, Ms. Lerner assists a survivor to better get by in life, whether it’s by helping her/him to untie personal knots, strategize about approaching challenges in a new way or by teaching new skills. She has personally and professionally built a vast storehouse of knowledge about brain injury and helps to educate her clients about their personal injuries. The work she does with brain injury clients is driven by the momentum of her own personal experience struggling with challenges, for she knows the process of wrestling with issues until she finds what successfully works for her. The counseling and life skills coaching she does is fully individualized, depending on what the student or client needs. 


Heidi helps survivors:

· Cope with trauma and the challenges of   daily life
· Gain new compensatory skills
· Become more familiar with themselves and others 
· Better express themselves
· Be more introspective regarding personal behavior
· Strategize about resolving psychosocial conflicts
· Apply behavior modification
· Plan and go after objectives and goals
· Transition from hospital to school 
· Integrate into and feel a part of a community
· Tutor in academics
· Improve study skills
· Formulate better interpersonal relations
· Direct clients toward a healthy social life
· Establish new strengths
· Gain independence in daily living skills
· Build confidence 
· Develop motivation
· Acquire a better self-concept.

In 1989, Ms. Lerner sustained a severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a car accident. In 1999, she earned her masters degree in Special Education specifically for survivors of brain injury. Because of her experience with brain injury and her professional education, Heidi Lerner helps other survivors in support groups and individual therapy attain a real sense of gaining benefits.

Academic Rehabilitation

Strategies to Approach Symptoms of Brain Injury

Can Creativity Enhance Cognition?

Navigating through Transitions

Research into the role of 
Motivation in the Rehabilitation from Brain Injury
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