Heidi is Licensed Creative Arts therapist (LCAT) Registered Drama Therapist and Board- Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT) and a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama (TEP). Specializing in trauma- informed work and the use of creative arts therapy techniques, she has a private practice and consulting business in New York City where she sees clients and facilitates trainings nationally and internationally.
Heidi has partnered with many arts -based organization in New York City to help organizations and teaching artists look at their work through a trauma informed lens. She is currently working with the education departments at The Park Avenue Armory, Only Make Believe and The PhilHarmonic and is serving as the wellness specialist at TheaterWorks USA
Previously Heidi worked at Creative Alternatives of New York, as Associate Executive Director of clinical and training programs where she ran Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy groups with many different populationsas well as trained staff and site partners in using creative techniques in psychotherapy and in the classroom. She also held the position of Community Coordinator of Mental Health at a high-school in the South Bronx for immigrant and refugee youth.
Heidi is an adjunct professor at New York University, Lesley University in MA, Concordia University in Montreal and on faculty of the KINT institute. She has published about her work in the books Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy: Transforming Clinics, classrooms and communities, Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioners Reference and in Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents: Theory and Practice as well as in multiple academic journals.
Her research, publications, and presentations have included the topics of trauma-informed work and systems, working with refugees and immigrants and the triple trauma paradigm, adolescent “resistance”, trauma in the classroom, group work, and psychodrama. Heidi has completed post-graduate training in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama and Attachment Focused EMDR