Heather works with adolescents and adults seeking help with disordered eating, trauma, emotional distress, and longstanding relational patterns.
AREAS OF FOCUS
People do not arrive as categories. These concerns often overlap.
A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE
Symptoms carry meaning. A person’s response to distress may have offered protection or made something survivable. Therapy is a place to understand what that response has been doing, and what else may now be possible.
It may also become disconnected from the conditions that first made it necessary. Therapy makes space for multiple truths. The suffering deserves direct attention, and so does the intelligence of the adaptation.
HOW HEATHER WORKS
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy & psychoanalysis
Sustained attention to states of emotional distress, relational patterns, and family of origin material to support self-reflection and mobilize change.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a multiphase treatment, using bilateral stimulation, typically guided eye movements, that supports reprocessing of distressing memories while maintaining dual attention.
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Clinical hypnosis
The use of guided visualization and hypnotic scripts to engage imagination and inner resources to support a sense of grounding and empowerment.
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Somatic awareness
Attention to sensation, rhythm, tension, movement, and other bodily communications as part of understanding emotional experience.
PRACTICE INFORMATION
A first conversation is a chance to ask about availability and whether working together feels like a good fit.
SESSIONS
In person & telehealth
WHO HEATHER SEES
Adolescents and adults
COLLABORATIVE CARE
Treatment for eating disorders may involve collaboration with medical, nutrition, and other clinicians. Care is considered individually.
FOR THERAPISTS AND OTHER CLINICIANS
Supervision, consultation, and teaching that support close clinical thinking and a personal clinical voice.