Heidi Di Santo
Psychotherapist & Emotional Fitness Pioneer
Heidi Di Santo helps individuals achieve lasting change by addressing the root causes of emotional challenges. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, media expertise, and a global speaking career, she empowers people to build resilience, self-awareness, and authentic wellbeing.
Quick Contact
Heidi Di Santo is a psychotherapist and pioneer in emotional fitness, offering a practical, root-cause approach to mental health. For over two decades, she has helped individuals achieve lasting transformation by addressing underlying emotional issues rather than simply managing symptoms.
Heidi’s unique methodology integrates Resource Therapy, Breathwork, and other evidence-based modalities to guide clients toward authentic healing. As a certified Resource Therapy Trainer personally mentored by Dr. Gordon Emmerson, she has trained fellow therapists in this transformative approach.
An accomplished author of three books—Ignite Your Potential, Lose Size & Energize, and I Should Be Happy But I’m Not—Heidi also founded the ‘Emotional Fitness Gym,’ an innovative online platform providing proactive mental health support for eight years. Her expertise has been featured across media outlets including Channel 7’s Sunrise, Radio 3AW, and OH! Magazine, and she played a key role in a national smoking cessation campaign alongside Alex Perry and Nicabate.
Prior to her clinical work, Heidi travelled the world as a motivational speaker, inspiring audiences with her story of resilience and personal growth. She originally began her career in Accounting and Finance, giving her a unique perspective on performance, wellbeing, and life transformation.
Heidi works with clients who are deeply committed to personal growth, using her extensive experience to help them create meaningful, lasting change.
Topics
The Mask
Everyone has a root abandonment wound that generally expresses itself as a feeling of ‘not being good enough’ or ‘not feeling lovable’. In order to hide this truth from the world, most people wear a mask and ‘pretend’ in life. When you find self love and self acceptance, you are able to remove this mask and ‘be you’. In Heidi’s opinion, depression is ‘the inability to find or be your true self’.
Acceptance versus Resistance
Acceptance is flowing with the river of life rather than trying to swim against its current (resistance). Resistance creates unresolved negative emotions, which are essentially energies, that get trapped in your body and cause negative health problems.
Becoming Present to Life
The mind’s eternal chatter and tendency to dwell on the past or worry about the future prevents people from finding inner peace and becoming present to life. Heidi’s belief is that unresolved emotional issues are at the heart of the need for this chatter. Feeling these unresolved emotions enables you to find presence. There is healing in the feeling. Her belief is that when you completely experience a repressed emotion, it will disappear completely and will no longer negatively impact on your life. The key is to feeling it fully.
Relationships and Communication
Any conflict can be resolved if both parties are willing to engage. Heidi’s belief is that people don’t go out to hurt each other, but that people do get hurt, and with understanding and compassion anything can be resolved. Sadly, ‘understanding and compassion’ are rare commodities in this life, being replaced with reactivity, withdrawal, judgment, criticism and bitching.
Identifying the Victim Inside
Anytime you blame anything or anyone outside of yourself for the circumstances in your life, you turn yourself into a victim. Becoming responsible for your thoughts puts you in control. When you search for happiness through other people or external things, you set yourself up for failure. Inner peace and true happiness can only be found by exploring your inner world.
Reprogramming your Mind
You are more than your thoughts and yet most people get hooked into their thoughts as though they were the truth. You are more than your ego and can reprogram your mind and change your life for the better.
The Unconscious 2-Dimensional World Versus The Conscious 3-Dimensional World
The 3 dimensional world is a place full of peace, love, understanding and acceptance. Sadly, most of the people living on earth are trapped in the two dimensional world, which is fear based, and full of blame, anger, judgment and criticism. There is a need for a change!
Heidi says “I’m really passionate about emotional healing as it is my true belief that unfelt, unresolved and trapped emotions keep people unhealthy, stuck in old patterns and unable to experience the true wonders of life”.
