Counsellor, Parenting Coach and Mindfulness Trainer
Heide Cheuk
Heide Cheuk is a counsellor, parenting coach and mindfulness trainer with a focus on family mental health, parenting support and child and adolescent wellbeing. She works with children, teens and parents in English and Cantonese, offering individual counselling, playâbased therapy for children, family sessions, group work and parent coaching to support emotional regulation, school-related stress and challenging behaviour.
Heide is a certified parenting coach in Parent Effectiveness Training and Mindful Parenting methods, and a certified mindfulness trainer. She regularly designs and leads mindful parenting, resilience and emotional regulation workshops for parents and educators in international schools and community settings across Hong Kong. Her clinical approach integrates personâcentred therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), family therapy, group therapy, solutionâfocused work, motivational interviewing and mindfulnessâbased practices, with an emphasis on practical tools that fit into real family life.
Before moving into counselling, Heide practised law for over a decade. She has completed her Master of Social Sciences in Counselling at The University of Hong Kong, where she specialised in play, family, and group therapy. She has further undertaken specialist training in mindfulness, child behaviour and mental health, and positive psychology at the University of Oxford, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Through her platform, LuminaMinds, she delivers parenting, mindfulness and wellbeing workshops and coaching for schools, corporates and charities.
As a mother of three young children, she combines professional training with lived experience to support families with warmth, clarity and a nonâjudgmental, strengthsâbased approach.
Qualifications
- Certification - Mindfulness, University of Oxford
- Certification - Child Development, Stanford University
- Certification - Positive Psychology, UC Berkeley
- Certified Parenting Coach in Parent Effectiveness Training and Mindful Parenting methods
- Certified Mindfulness Trainer (MindfulnessâBased Cognitive Therapy for Life, University of Oxford
- Clinical training in play therapy, family therapy and group therapy , HKU Master of Social Sciences in Counselling specialization
- Experience in playâbased and familyâfocused counselling for children, teens and parents
- Attorney at Law, New York State Bar
Education
- Masterâs in Social Sciences (Counselling), University of Hong Kong
- LL.B., Law, Durham University
- LL.M. Law, Duke University
- Mindfulness Teachers Training in MindfulnessâBased Cognitive Therapy for Life, University of Oxford
- Child Development: Behaviour and Mental Health, Stanford University
- Positive Psychology & EvidenceâBased Transformative Practice, University of California, Berkeley
