MY APPROACH
Heather is a psychoanalyst and integrative psychotherapist who focuses on how we tell our stories, the patterns we repeat, and the experiences the body continues to carry.
IN THE PRACTICE
Trauma, disordered eating, and emotional distress can take shape in the body before they can be put into words. Heather attends to the story a person tells and to the feelings, patterns, and bodily experiences that accompany it.
Her work brings psychoanalytic understanding into conversation with EMDR, clinical hypnosis, and somatic awareness. These approaches are used selectively, allowing the person’s needs and the developing therapeutic relationship to guide the work.
ABOUT HEATHER
Over thirty-five years of clinical experience, grounded in psychoanalysis and attentive to the complexity of each person’s life.
Heather’s work extends from the practice to supervision, teaching, and writing. A continuing question connects these settings: what does it take to listen closely, think carefully, and remain open to what we do not yet understand?
35+
Years of clinical experience
20
Published papers & chapters
FEATURED IDEAS
PUBLICATION · 2024
Creative visualization in the treatment of trauma.
Read & explore
CONVERSATIONS & WRITING
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The trauma behind the eating disorder symptoms
With Rachelle Heinemann, on the body, trauma, and disordered eating.
PUBLICATION · 2025
Inhabiting a transgender body
Hunger, desire, and danger. A paper in Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
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PODCAST · 2023
Out of tune
Music, creativity, and the relationships that keep a band together.
