New to Grow
Hello and welcome to the next stage of your mental health journey! I would be honored to be a part of your healing transformation, and look forward to helping you celebrate all of your progress. My name is Heather, and I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist serving children, teens, adults, couples, and even entire families. My background includes extensive training in Grief/Loss, major life transitions, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, and lots of couples work! I show up authentic, genuine, open, honest, and generally rooting for you with all of my being. I am compassionate about the work that I do and my clients wellbeing means the world to me.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
The first session will consist of establishing a therapeutic relationship, assessing for appropriateness of fit, answering any client concerns, and providing clear expectations of how therapy will work and what to expect from both client and therapist. Finally, goals for therapy will be collaboratively planned.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
Based on client feedback, most clients state they appreciate my warmth, genuineness and down-to-earth approach. I generally work from a person-centered, culturally sensitive and trauma-informed lens. I am also highly adaptable and will adjust my approach to best fit the needs of each client.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
My ideal client is anyone who is willing to learn, grow and is dedicated to improving their mental wellness. I have worked with children as young as three, all the way up to centenarian adults.
Attachment-based
We are relational beings, and as such, few things matter more in our lives than the quality of relationships we have with both others and ourselves. Rooted in attachment theory, I utilize the therapeutic relationship as a powerful means to attain positive change and to help others improve their own relationality.
Trauma Informed Care
A trauma-informed approach prioritizes emotional and physical safety, recognizing how past trauma may shape a client’s current thoughts, behaviors, and nervous system responses. Treatment emphasizes collaboration, choice, and empowerment, allowing clients to move at their own pace while building regulation and coping skills before processing traumatic material. I maintain sensitivity to triggers, avoid re-traumatization, and integrate interventions that foster resilience, self-compassion, and a restored sense of control.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I help clients identify the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, highlighting how unhelpful thinking patterns contribute to distress. Treatment focuses on collaboratively challenging cognitive distortions and developing more balanced, realistic thoughts alongside practicing new behavioral skills. The approach is structured, goal-oriented, and often includes between-session exercises to reinforce coping strategies and promote lasting change.
Couples Counseling
Following an RLT (Relational Life Therapy) approach, I actively help couples identify destructive relational patterns, such as power imbalances, avoidance, or shame-based behaviors, that undermine connection. I am more direct and engaged than in some other models, offering clear feedback, accountability, and practical guidance to help partners move from blame or withdrawal into mutual responsibility. Treatment focuses on building relational skills—such as effective communication, empathy, and repair—so both partners can create a more honest, respectful, and connected dynamic.
EMDR
One of the most powerful ways we can reclaim our nervous systems and heal from our past trauma. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, relies on bilateral stimulation as means of 're-programming' our nervous systems so that traumatic memories no longer activate our flight/fight/freeze or fawn response, but instead we are able to stay regulated in self-safety.