Heather Jackson is a LMHC in Rhode Island. She has a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Counseling, Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Arts in Counseling, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Feminist, Women, and Queer Studies.
Heather has experience and training working with all ages and most issues but has her most extensive training and experience working with children and adolescents and people who have experienced trauma. She has experience working with children as young as 1 year old and adolescents who struggle with emotional regulation, aggression, and safety concerns. Heather believes in working with youth through play and art and also providing parents and guardians tools and methods for managing behaviors and creating a sense of safety. Heather has worked with people of all ages who have been traumatized through interpersonal violence, 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 holistic approach with clients with eating disorders and will encourage working with a nutritionist/dietician, as well as a medical provider.
Heather believes in the person-centered approach and believes that an individual knows themselves better than anyone else and that they and their knowledge must be the center of any counseling efforts. Heather uses a variety of counseling approaches including parenting and behavioral management strategies, somatic work, EMDR, CBT, and DBT. She believes people need a variety of skills and tools and values using multiple theories and approaches. Heather is also trained as a birth doula and childbirth educator. Heather is currently training to become a yoga instructor and plans on utilizing this in her work.
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.
Heather’s current practice is telehealth due to the pandemic, however depending on the continuing course of the pandemic Heather plans to move to in-person counsel in office space in Providence when doing so is safe and reasonable. Heather works with an open schedule and will meet in non-traditional hours for those clients who need that.
