Heather Melver, LCSW-A(She/Her/Hers)

Heather brings years of experience working with teens and adults across a variety of settings and communities. As a Social Worker, her practice is grounded in strengths-based, relational, systems-oriented, and client-centered care. She draws from modalities such as Person-Centered Therapy, ACT, CBT, and DBT, while also integrating mindfulness, self-compassion, values clarification, body and breath work, and somatic and nervous system-informed practices rooted in diverse multicultural traditions that honor the connection between mind, body, community, and environment.

Heather approaches therapy through a trauma-informed and decolonizing lens, recognizing that emotional distress cannot be separated from the larger systems people navigate every day. She understands that experiences related to oppression, marginalization, chronic stress, capitalism, colonialism, ableism, racism, and identity can deeply impact wellbeing. As a white, cisgender woman, Heather is committed to continually examining her own perspective and the space she occupies within the therapeutic relationship. She approaches this work with humility, curiosity, accountability, and respect for each person’s lived experience and inner wisdom. This commitment includes ongoing reflection through therapy, clinical supervision, continuing education, reading, and community learning.

Heather welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively with people from all walks of life. She has significant experience supporting women and queer clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodivergence, grief, chronic and terminal illness, burnout, and major life transitions. She has offered Telehealth services for several years and is excited to begin offering in-person appointments in Tacoma, Washington beginning in June.

If you enter into a counseling relationship with Heather, you find that she meets you where you are on your path. Her work is grounded in the belief that each person carries an innate capacity for healing, meaning-making, and growth. Rather than focusing on “fixing,” therapy becomes a space for connection, reflection, and reconnecting with yourself, your values, and the life you want to move toward.