Hi, I’m Heidi!
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Teacher. Imagination Expert
Whether you are looking to grow personally or professionally, I am here to help. As a Licensed Creative Art Therapist (LCAT), Registered Drama Therapist/ Board Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT) and Trainer Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama (TEP) with an expertise in trauma-informed work, I help individuals and organizations explore their own roles and stories and create new ones. in order to get where they want to go. I use a combination of therapeutic teachniques and professional imaginative play to approach each experience - past, current, and future - with emotional flexibility and confidence. This work connects people with their own sense of play and spontaneity, loosening the ties of anxiety and creating space for emotional flexibility and confidence.,.
Imagination and play are invaluable tools that can completely rewrite your life.
We are all born with the ability to imagine, play, explore and create. But more often than not, trauma and difficult life events keep us from moving forward. The role of creative arts therapy is to help us imagine new life possibilities again.
If you feel disconnected from your own needs, you feel overwhelmed because you are taking care of everyone but yourself, you desire a sense of confidence and you know that imagination and play have value, I’m so glad you are here.
My Roles….
I love my role as a Licensed Creative Arts therapist (LCAT), Registered Drama Therapist and Board-Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT) Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama (TEP). Over the past 15 years I have had the privilege to work in many different settings and with many different populations. Currently I am working in private practice in New York City where I see clients and facilitate trainings nationally and internationally and consult with some incredible organizations wanting to deepen their work with clients, students and colleagues.
As a psychotherapist with an expertise in trauma informed work, I use the creative arts therapies to achieve the therapeutic goals of self-expression, personal empowerment, and emotional and physical integration. I work from a psychodynamic and relational lens, ntentionally combining talk therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama and the creative arts to address emotional issues in innovative, unique ways.. I meeting people where they are, and making sure that whatever therapeutic methods I offer suit the individual's needs. The therapeutic space is co-created developing trust and offering acceptance. I am a believer that when words are not enough, creative and dramatic tools can offer alternate ways of exploration
As a trainer, teacher and consultant I specialize in working with mental health professionals, teachers, artists and teaching artists on trauma-informed creative practices in the classroom, organizations and in clinical settings.
In addition to private practice, I am an adjunct professor at New York University and Yeshiva University in NYC, Lesley University in MA, Concordia University in Montreal and on faculty of the KINT institute. I have published about my work in multiple books and journals. Feel free to check them out here.
My Professional Roles (i.e credentials)
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)
Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT)
Trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama (TEP)
Sometimes I play the role of the academic writer. My work has been published in text books and peer reviewed journals. Take a look here.
Change is hard. But it doesn’t mean it can’t be fun.
Are you ready to rewrite your story and play a new role in it? Find out more about my services below, set up a time to talk, or stay in touch by adding your email below.
Let’s play!
