Heather Jackson, LMHC, LCMHC, LPC, LCPC

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. 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. 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 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: DBT, ACT, EMDR, somatic therapies, Harm Reduction, HAES, liberation psychology, 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, and social oppression.  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. 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 health issues, single & teen motherhood, being raised in a multicultural & blended family, mental illness, 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: Institute for Development for the Human Arts International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Foundation Maryland Counseling Association Maryland Counselors for Social Justice Maryland Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Pro Choice Therapists Crisis/Emergency Information: Rhode Island: Amor Support Line: 401-675-1414 (24 hour community support line - English & Spanish) BH Link 401-414-LINK (5465) NAMI RI Crisis: (800) 950-NAMI Good Samaritans/Listening Line: (401) 272-4044 Kids Link: 855-543-5464 (families in crisis 24 hour line) New York: NYC Crisis Info: 988 Good Samaritans/Listening Line: 212-673-3000 Child & Adolescent Crisis Info: 988 New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP) hotline: 212-714-1141. Vermont: Clara Martin Center Crisis Line: 800-639-6360 Pathways Peer Support: 833-888-2557 (call or text) VT Care Partners (families in crisis info): (802) 876-7021 VT Support Line: 833-VT Talks (call or text) Virginia: Virginia 988: 988 Mental Health Virginia - Peer Run Warmline: 866-400-6428 Hope Link Behavioral: 988 Massachusetts: Behavioral Health Help Line call or text: 833-773-2445 Call2Talk: 508-532-CALL (2255) Mobile Crisis Intervention: East Area - (800) 540-5806, West Area - (800) 640-5432 Maryland: House of Ruth: 410-889-7884 MD Youth Crisis Hotline: 800-422-0009 National Crisis Lines (not all contact the cops, some do, FYI) THRIVE: text "THRIVE" to 313-662-8209 (anti-carceral crisis support hotline for LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and those with disabilities Texting Crisis Lifeline: 741-741 warmline.org: peer-run line Trans LifeLine: 877-565-8860 Trevor Project: 866-488-7386 HIPS Hotline: 800-676-4477 (24 hour hotline for sex workers, people who use drugs, & LGBTQ+ people) Strong Hearts Native Helpline: 844-7NATIVE (call or text) Youth Line: 877-968-8491, text ‘teen2teen’ to 839863, or chat Wildflower Alliance: 888-407-4515 (Peer Support) Blackline: 800-604-5841 (Crisis support with a Black, LGBTQ+, & Black Femme lens) THRIVE Lifeline 313-662-8290 (Crisis support for/by marginalized individuals) LGBTQ Helpline For South Asians: 908-367-3374 National Coalition Of Anti-Violence Programs: 212-714-1141 National Parent & Youth Helpline: 855-427-2736 Deaf Lead 24/7 Crisis Line: (573)445-5005 Deaf Survivors ASL Hotline: 855-812-1001