Training History
Ideas for what kinds of issues that Heather is trained to help you deal with.
Counselors have a wide array of specialties, and sometimes it is difficult to determine who might have the background of training you need. My niche is Complex PTSD. I focus on helping clients with attachment and/or trauma wounds. I have a no nonsense style, you get what you see with me. I realize I am not for everyone. If you want to work to get better, even if you are stuck in quick sand, if you want to work, let's see if we work as a healing team.
Heather maintains her EMDR certification (since 2016), Telemental Health Credential (2020), her Internationally Credentialed Sandtray Therapist Status (2023), and her Animal Assisted Treatment - Interventionist (2023) Statuses. Over the years she has found that maintaining top level trainings keeps her from burnout (compassion fatigue) while fostering an environment for clients to grow into the best version of self.
With that in mind here is a sampling of her trainings since 2020:
EMDR Reboot
EMDR and Sandtray
Immune system, who gets sick
Ethics and Suicide
IFS and Coherence
EMDR Agate Institute 4th Summit
Clinical Supervision
Distance for mental health (telemental health certification course)
Intro to trauma bonding
Mandated Reporter training (every two years)
EMDR Safe and Practical EMDR for Complex PTSD
HOW EMDR has changed lives
Delivery of EMDR in Metropolitan Police Department
The elephant in the room: SYstematic racism and psychotherapy
Improving Object Relations with EMDR
Oops, EMDR clinician mistakes and blunders
EMDR Chronic Pain Management
Pathways to Connection: Attachment in Everyday life
Healing the fragmented self
EMDR and the Treatment of Pain
Somatic and Attachment focused EMDR for the Chronic pain (SAFE)
Clinical applications of the Polyvagal theory with Stephen Porges
EMDR for Chronic Pain
EMDR and attachment
EMDR Level Up
Contemporary JEDI's in EMDR treatment
EMDR Early Intervention & Rapid Response: Benefits of Integrating ASSYST
EMDR and Domestic Violence
Integrating MI and EMDR: Working with Complex Presentations and Ambivalence
EMDR: Psychedelics
EMDR Dissociation, past present future
EMDR and Polyvygal theory
EMDR Connection and Belonging: A Core Human Need and Distinct Category of NC/PC's
Getting Ventral with Polyvagal Theory in EMDR therapy
Secondary Trauma and EMDR Therapy: Implications for Clinicians
EMDR Therapy for for Complex PTSD: An integrative approach to treating clients
Heal the Healers Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 with consultation
The History of AAT and AAT principles
Intro to Animal Assisted Therapy
Animals as Co-therapist selection, Behavior and Training
Intro to Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
Developing Treatment Plans and Tracking outcomes in AAT
Animals as Co-therapists: Blending Animal Interventions with a Range of Professional Theories
Animals as co-therapists: Exploring animal assisted Interventions across Professions, settings, and Populations
Help your clients recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse
Sandtray 4th International Summit
Who am I (in the sandtray)
EMDR Therapy with Complex PTSD Clients through the Lenses of Resiliency
Improving First Responder Resiliency with EMDR
Animal Assisted Therapy, Live Intensive
Moving toward a sustainable and responsive telehealth EMDR
Ethics in the Sandtray
Body Image Summit, virtual (two days)
Foundations of Somatic Therapy for Trauma: the 9 Key techniques for effective body based therapy
Resetting the Immune System, A Focus on Pans and Pandas (EMDR)
DNMS Interventions to Prepare Dysregulated, Dissociative, and Attachment-Wounded Clients for EMDR
Treating Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Their Lives form the Toxic Legacy of Controlling, Rejecting or Self Involved Parents
Boundary Setting strategies: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Emotional Autonomy
Using Sandtray to Explore Your Weird and Wonderful Self
Is It Really Over? Processing Death and Divorce in the Sandtray
Images in the sand: Powerful Tool to Explore Parts of Self & Complex Trauma
Play Your Funky Music: Using your Personal Soundtrack in the Sandtray
Weirdly Attached, Using Sandtray to sort and create healthy attachments (Presented)
Spoons in the Sandtray: Trauma, Chronic Illness, and Spoons
For the Jedi Council of Supervisors: Sandtray in Supervision We will learn
Somatic Therapy to Tame the Survival Response and Heal Implicit Trauma Memories
Emotional Dysregulation in Emotionally Immature (EI) People: When Parents are Terrified of Feelings
The Three Dimensions of Emotional Intelligence: Helping People Find the Balance of Personal Power, Heart & Mindfulness
Somatic Therapy to Create Healthy Attachment: Strategies to Heal Development and Relational Trauma
Trauma is Broken Connection: Healing strategies for Attachment Injury and Relational Trauma
Mental health documentation & Medical necessity: Simple, Clear Guidelines that Maintain Quality of Care and Protect Your practice