Heather Jackson

Heather Jackson is a LMHC/LCHMC/LPC/LCPC in Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Maryland. Maryland is her home state. Heather is doing telehealth only. Heather has experience and training working with all ages. She has extensive training and experience working with children, adolescents, and people who have experienced trauma. Heather has worked with people of all ages who have been traumatized through interpersonal violence, sexual abuse, systematic trauma, as well as familial and cultural trauma. Heather also has training in eating disorders with people of all ages and identities. Heather believes in a community approach with clients with eating disorders and will encourage working with a dietician, as well as a medical provider. Heather is also training as a PMH-C through Postpartum Support International. Heather believes in the person-centered, non-hierarchal approach and believes that an individual knows themselves better than anyone else and that they and their knowledge must be the center. She values autonomy and agency. Heather uses a variety of counseling approaches (always trauma and neurodivergent-affirmed!): DBT and ACT as a baseline with the framework of Harm Reduction, HAES, liberation psychology. She is trained in EMDR, somatic therapies, other trauma-based therapies, parenting, and several eating disorder focused approaches (Family-Based Eating Disorder Treatment, CBT-Enhanced for Eating Disorders, Harm Reduction, and DBT). She believes that not one approach helps everyone and values using multiple theories and approaches. Heather is also trained as a childbirth educator, yoga instructor, and a Full Spectrum Doula. Heather has experiences in a variety of settings including a university counseling center, community mental health clinics, in-home counseling, crisis intervention, case management, and more. Her graduate school experience was centered around social justice and the various systematic oppressions people experience in addition to mental health. She has a lot of experience working with LGBTQIA2S+ clients, people in polyamorous relationships, and people exploring a wide range of sexualities, desires, and attractions. Her specialities are eating disorders, trauma, LGBTQIA2S+ issues, reproductive/perinatal mental health, chronic illnesses. She also does gender affirmation letters. She requires 1 to 2 meetings with the client and bills insurance and/or use a sliding scale. Heather is very in solidarity with the 2LGBTQIA2S+ population, sex workers, people in poverty, people with chronic illness, and undocumented people.  I am trained through BADT as a Full Spectrum Doula (C-FSD (BADT, 2024) and as a child birth educator through GentleBirth in 2019. She is also a Certified Abortion Doula (CDP). I am also a yoga instructor through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center/Online Yoga School (RYT® 200). I also have 2 years of experiencing co-leading a trauma-informed yoga group at a RI agency with people of all ages. Personal note: I also have lived experience related to poverty, trauma, neurodivergency, mental illness, single & teen motherhood, being raised in a multicultural & blended family, raising a mixed Latinx child, and as a first generation college student. I am a queer, neurodivergent, cisgender woman with multiple chronic illnesses and invisible disabilities. I have done a lot of work around my own privilege and oppression including race, ethnicity, ability/disability, class, heterosexism, cisgenderism, citizen status, and more. Professional Memberships: Association for Women in Psychology GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality Institute for Development for the Human Arts International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Foundation MD Counseling Association - SAIGE MD - MCSJ Postpartum Support International Pro Choice Therapists Crisis Lines (National & State) https://tinyurl.com/4udex5tn