Heather Thorp, EdD, LCSW, REAT
Heather is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience working with people experiencing health and mental health challenges. Besides her clinical training and expertise, her lenses include creativity, sacredness, and social/environmental justice. She sees herself as a story receiver with deep listening to the client about their joys and sorrows. She works with clients to honor their stories/life experiences, but also to heal from wounding stories and create new nurturing stories.
She believes in the healing power of the client therapist relationship through deep listening, a holistic strengths perspective, and a person-in-environment lens. She has been a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist for over 15 years-inviting clients to use multimodal creative practices including visual arts, sound, movement, writing and ecotherapy if they are interested. She enjoys working with each person’s relationship to creativity and sacredness, according to how they understand and practice this. She is also interested in how social and environmental justice impact mental and physical health.
She has worked in community mental health and in private practice mainly with adults. She enjoys helping people increase resilience, balance moods, weather life transitions/grief, and create healthy relationships. She is available for both in person and online appointments.
Heather has experience working with people seeking therapy/support for:
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
Embracing Elderhood
Neurodiversity-Especially Women-Late Discovery/Diagnosis
Living with Disabilities
Caregiver Support
Grief and Loss
Life Transitions
Adult Family Therapy
Counseling for Professional Caregivers
LGBTQ+
“I believe we are looking for an opportunity for becoming kin and kin(d) with ourselves and others so we can embrace what we will do with our ‘one wild and precious life’ (Mary Oliver)”
Heather can be reached at 828-406-9686 or artgirlheather@gmail.com
Heather accepts BCBS, Aetna, United Insurance.