Heidi Peck Breaux, LCSW

Heidi Peck Breaux, LCSW-R, possesses an expertise in counseling individuals of marginalized identities, training staff that serve diverse populations, and teaching anti-oppressive practice in higher education. She is the Executive Director of Heidi Breaux Consulting, LLC and works on providing LGBTQIA+ competency trainings and panels to universities, organizations and institutions nationwide. Heidi specializes in providing training on all topics related to LGBTQIA+ equity with a strong focus on best practices for working with transgender, non binary, and gender diverse people.

For over 15 years, Heidi has provided counseling and administrative leadership in federal, municipal, and nonprofit agencies. She’s worked in a treatment setting for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at an Asian and Pacific Islander health clinic in Chinatown NYC. As the Associate Director of Adult Services at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, she oversaw grant-funded programs, lead LGBTQIA+ cultural competency trainings, and provided testimony to the NYC Council Commission on Human Rights.

Heidi has helped develop social work best practices. She served on the NYC Department of Health LGBTQ Employee Resource Group as a leader for the transgender and gender non-conforming inclusive sub-group and participated in developing programs for the Women Who Have Sex with Women group and Transgender Practice Patient training.

Her higher education career started in 2014 as an Adjunct Professor at New York University Silver Graduate School of Social Work where she taught Clinical Practice III and IV along with Diversity, Racism, Oppression and Privilege.

Heidi is committed to countering racism, classism, ethnocentrism, sexism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia directly. She received her BASW from Rutgers University and her MSW from New York University and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Social Work. She is also a parent and a strong advocate for reproductive justice.