Heather Jackson
Heather Jackson
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Heather Jackson(She/Her/Hers)

(She/Her/Hers)
Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, CAGS
Rhode Island•Maryland•Massachusetts
Trauma-Eating disorders- LGBTQIA, gender, & sexuality topics-Racism, oppression, and discrimination-Sexual harassment & assault-Domestic violence-

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In-network with some insurances

$125

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Professional statement

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.

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.

Message to clients

As a mental health counselor, I very much value my own experiences with the world and these experiences inform my work with you. I think being vulnerable and going through my own counseling is important. I believe that the environment, systems of oppression, and the world we will live in deeply affects our mental health. Going to counseling can be intimidating. I’ve been there. I take a non-hierarchical approach and I very much value autonomy and want to assist you in experiencing the world and yourself in the way you want to! Life can be challenging and while I cannot take away those challenging moments, I can assist you in experiencing them in a less oppressive and frightening way.

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.

I also provide gender affirmation letters. I bill insurance and/or use my sliding scale.

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 (RYT® 200).

Work and Education

Years of Experience: 14 years

Gateway Healthcare, Inc., Child and Family Outreach Clinician, 2016 - 2022
Day One, Fee for Service Clinician, 2018 - 2020
Childhood Lead Action Project, Community Organizer, 2015 - 2016
Recycle-A-Bike, Youth Bicycle Instructor, 2015 - 2016
Urban League of Rhode Island, Case Manager for teen parents, 2015 - 2016
Child Trends, Data Collector in Rhode Island, 2015 - 2015
Brown University School of Public Health-Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Project Coordinator, 2015 - 2015
Community Violence Intervention Center, Community Coordinated Response Specialist, 2014 - 2014

Rhode Island College, CGS in Advanced Counseling, 2019
University of North Dakota, Master’s in Public Health (Population Health Research & Evaluation focus), 2014
University of North Dakota, M.A. in Counseling (Community Mental Health focus), 2012
University of North Dakota, B.A. in Sociology and Feminist, Women, and Queer Studies, 2010

Licensure

Rhode Island: MHC01033 - New York: 012682 - Vermont: 068.0135547 - Virginia: 0701014363 - Massachusetts: LMHC10003191 - Maryland: MD# LC17378

Languages

English

Specialties

Trauma - Coping and healing after threatening or scary events, such as witnessing accidents or experiencing sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse

Eating disorders - Reducing unhealthy eating patterns, beliefs, and behaviors, such as restricting, purging, and binging; healing the emotional pain surrounding disordered eating

LGBTQIA, gender, & sexuality topics - Exploring topics of sexuality, gender, and identity; coping with discrimination and oppression; navigating relationship, family, and cultural challenges

Racism, oppression, and discrimination - Exploring how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, and other oppression impacts one’s life, including relationships, work life, and self-esteem; growing self-care practices to combat the negative emotions that arise when faced with identity-based adverse experiences, as well as exploring ways to challenge/change this on a structural level

Sexual harassment & assault - Caring support along the pathway to safety, wellbeing, and healing for survivors of sexual abuse and assault

Domestic violence - Caring support along the pathway to safety, wellbeing, and healing for those surviving a partner’s abusive attempts to control one’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions

General expertise

Treatment approaches

Clientele

  • Adults (24+)
  • Children (<12)
  • Families
  • Parents
  • Teenagers (13-18)
  • Young adults (18-24)

Locations & Hours

The insurance I accept is a big confusing because I'm licensed in multiple-states. Please reach out to me if you have any questions about what I accept. Scroll down for more info on this.

Insurance

  • Aetna (in-network in RI, NY, MD)
  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island BCBS RI (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (in-network in RI, VT, MD)
  • Brown University Employee Health Insurance (BCBS RI) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Brown University Student Health Insurance (United Healthcare) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Carelon (in-network in RI, NY, MD)
  • Emblem Health (in-network in NY, MD)
  • Evernorth (in-network in NY, MD)
  • GHI (in-network in NY, MD)
  • Green Mountain Care (in-network in VT, MD)
  • Harvard Pilgrim (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Healthfirst (in-network in NY, MD)
  • MVP Healthcare (in-network in RI, NY, VT, VA, MA, MD)
  • MassHealth (in-network in MA, MD)
  • MassHealth (in-network in MA, MD)
  • Medicaid (in-network in RI, NY, VA, MD)
  • Medicaid (through Tufts) (in-network in RI, MA, MD)
  • Medicaid (through United Health) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Medicare (in-network in NY, MD)
  • Medicare (through Blue Cross Blue Shield) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Medicare (through United Health) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Optum (in-network in RI, NY, MD)
  • Oxford Health Plans (in-network in RI, NY, MD)
  • RISD Student Health Insurance (United Healthcare) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Rhode Island College Employee Health Insurance (BCBS RI) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Rhode Island School of Design Employee Health Insurance (BCBS RI) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Roger Williams University Employee Health Insurance (BCBS RI) (in-network in RI, MD)
  • Tufts Health Plan (in-network in RI, MA, MD)
  • Tufts Health Plan (Commercial Plans, not via Mass Health or Navigator) (in-network in RI, MA, MD)
  • United Healthcare (in-network in RI, NY, MD)
  • United Healthcare Student Health Plan (in-network in RI, MD)
  • metroplus (in-network in NY, MD)

Out-of-pocket fees

  • Individual sessions:$125 (50min)
  • Initial session:$125 (50min)

Additional session information

Out-of-network billing options

This provider can support you in getting reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement. Here are the out-of-network billing options they provide:

  • Super billing
Payment options
  • Cash
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
Session frequency

Frequency of sessions this provider offers to see clients once you are an established client.

  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • Every other week
  • Every other month
  • As needed
Therapist's note

I have sliding scale options and payment plan options in all states, as well. I am not credentialed with every Medicaid or Medicare plan in NY.

Specifically:

Rhode Island: Optum, Medicaid: NHP, United, & Tufts, BCBS RI - Public & Private, Tufts - Public and Private, Harvard Pilgrim, Cigna/Evernorth, NHP - Private, United - Private, Oxford, Aetna, student health plans

New York: Beacon/Carelon, Optum (UMR, Choice Plus, Oxford, Compass, Harvard Pilgrim, All Savers Plan, Golden Rule, AmeriGroup, Edge, Navigate), MetroPlus, HealthFirst, Oxford, UHC Commercial, NY State Empire Plan, Medicare Plans under Beacon/Carelon, Surest Plan, Cigna/Evernorth, Aetna, Emblem Health

Vermont: Medicaid - Green Mountain, BCBS

Virginia: Medicaid, Sentara Health Plans, working on HMO plans

Massachusetts: MassHealth, public & private Tufts, public & private Harvard Piligrim

Maryland: No insurance yet, working on credentialing.

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