A trained psychoanalyst, Heather offers training analysis, supervision, and consultation for clinicians thinking deeply about the therapeutic relationship and embodied communication.
LEARNING THROUGH CLINICAL WORK
How do we keep growing as clinicians?
Good clinical work begins with attention to what is actually happening between two people. A change in rhythm, a silence, or a feeling in the therapist can open a question that theory alone has not answered.
Supervision is a place to examine what you notice, what you feel, and what you may be missing. Heather helps clinicians bring psychoanalytic, relational, and embodied perspectives into their work, and develop the judgment to decide what is useful for this person, at this moment.
LEARNING TO NOTICE
01
Words, and the way they are said
Pace, rhythm, hesitation, and tone as clinical information.
02
Transference, countertransference, enactment
What takes shape between clinician and patient, including the clinician’s own embodied response.
03
Symptoms as adaptations
What a symptom helps a person manage, alongside the harm it may cause.
04
Trauma, dissociation, and overwhelm
Attention to states of shame, over-arousal, and the pace that keeps difficult material approachable.
05
Coherent integration
Psychoanalytic, relational, somatic, and trauma-informed perspectives informing one treatment.
06
The uses of uncertainty
A disciplined, personal way of working with what is not yet known.
WHO HEATHER WORKS WITH
Psychoanalytic candidates, early-career therapists, and experienced clinicians. Some seek ongoing supervision; others bring a specific case, an impasse, or a wish to integrate different ways of working.
The best fit is often a clinician who values close thinking and sustained contact with the person in the room.
CLINICAL & INSTITUTIONAL WORK
TEACHING & WRITING
In conversation with the field.
Heather currently teaches and supervises in the four-year psychoanalytic training programs at IPSS and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She has published in psychoanalytic journals and served as an Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context.
Selected presentations
FORMATION
Education and training.
Clinical training at Columbia University and psychoanalytic training at IPSS, followed by further study in group psychotherapy, somatic approaches, clinical hypnosis, and EMDR.