LCSW, 12 years of experience
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Hi, I'm Heather, pronouns she/they! I'm an LCSW and I have 10+ years of experience providing mental health therapy to individuals, couples, and families. My experience working with people who are neurodivergent has allowed me to help them work through feeling stuck, unheard, and/or trapped within our system of social norms and unrealistic expectations. I identify as queer and have worked with clients in all stages of recognizing their queerness. I also have experience working with those who have experienced trauma; whether due to their sexuality, abusive relationships, upbringing, or otherwise.
In our first session, we will introduce ourselves to each other and I will allow for you to inform me if you had any specific goals or concerns to address in the first session. After that we will cover some "housekeeping" items; such as your rights and responsibilities. Once we have completed that I will use a list of questions that I have compiled, over the last decade, in order to get to know you and identify where you currently stand in your life. As this will be the first time you have met me, I attempt to keep things relatively light and don't ask or expect you to go into your deepest darkest concerns or traumas. If clients are comfortable going there in the first session, I am absolutely capable of doing so, but I never expect a client to share anything they are uncomfortable with no matter what number session we are in.
While it may be considered questionable by some practitioners to self-disclose I do believe one my greatest strengths as a therapist is my ability to relate with my clients. Life has not been easy for me and when it is appropriate I will self-disclose with my clients. This is never an attempt to take control of the session but to help you feel validated, less alone, and more hopeful about making it to a place where you can truly love and enjoy your own life. I am neurodivergent, queer, and non-binary so I have a lot of life experiences that are similar to the life experiences of clients who have struggled to connect with other therapists.
My favorite clients come into therapy feeling othered, unheard, stuck, confused, and hopeless amongst other overwhelming feelings. While I am not happy to hear that my clients feel this way I know that I personally have the experience to help them get themselves to the other side of their struggles. Clients who identify as neurodivergent, queer, and nerdy tend to tell me they are very happy to have found me as a therapist. Teenagers and adults both have been able to connect with me in healthy and constructive ways.
4 ratings with written reviews
June 3, 2025
Heather has helped me through so many struggles, big and small. She’s authentic and treats situations holistically, looking for many ways to help me manage my anxiety and depression. I have overcome one of the worst mental health episodes I’ve had with her therapy sessions. She brings honesty and clarity with a bit of humor into our sessions which I appreciate. She doesn’t sugar coat things and I can trust her to help me navigate my troubles.
May 1, 2025
I have been seeing my therapist for about 4 months and in those 4 months I have started a journey of healing that couldn’t have been started without Heathers help! Her warm spirit and authentic approach is comforting and allows me to truly speak my mind during our sessions.
April 28, 2025
She is amazing and I actually look forward to my Monday sessions. It’s so easy to talk to her and she relates on a level that I can understand and I feel comfortable with!!
We will work together to determine what treatment method will work specifically for you. We will consider your symptoms, what has worked and not worked in the past, your strengths, your limitations, your cultural background, and other variables specific to you as an individual. Treatment techniques will be pulled from multiple modalities such as CBT, Attachment-based Therapy, ACT, DBT, Family and Couple's Therapy, Gender-affirming Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Strength-based Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Trauma Informed Care.
Working together we will ensure that all methods and approaches are viewed through a trauma "lens." Should certain aspects of different therapies be triggering we will not focus on that unless it is helpful and the client is ready to use skills to work through a potential trauma response.
Using CBT we will work together to identify how your thoughts and feelings affect your behaviors. We will work to help you see that your thoughts and feelings are not who you are as a person and can be controlled and changed in order to benefit you, as an individual. This will help you feel more in control of your thought process and behaviors within your every day life.
During the course of therapy I will ask you questions geared to make you think about your own motivations and goals. When you answer these questions we can get closer to identifying contradicting thoughts/behaviors that are interfering with your ability to meet your goals.
We will work together to identify the narrative that is occurring in your mind re: your life and how you are living it. Using different narrative skills we can rewrite your narrative in a way that helps you move forward feeling more safe and in control of your life.