Heather Waxman(She/Her/Hers)

Heather Waxman is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and certified somatic practitioner who works with chronically stressed adults navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, and life transitions. Her clients are often thoughtful, introspective, and self-aware, yet feel tense, emotionally overloaded, or disconnected despite years of insight or personal growth. Many are moving through identity shifts, relationship changes, or seasons when old coping strategies no longer work, and are seeking a therapeutic space that feels steady, grounded, and supportive.

Heather’s approach is holistic, trauma-informed, and somatic, integrating nervous system regulation, relational therapy, and depth-oriented psychotherapy. She works from a non-pathologizing perspective, understanding experiences such as anxiety, chronic stress, or over-responsibility as meaningful adaptations rather than problems to fix. Therapy is paced with care and attunement, allowing clients to slow down, listen inwardly, and build a felt sense of safety so change can unfold gradually and sustainably.

Sessions are warm, collaborative, and grounded in nervous system safety. Heather works with both conversation and the body, using somatic practices, parts-based work informed by Internal Family Systems, and gentle experiential tools to support regulation, release chronic tension, and integrate insight at an embodied level. For clients who are open to it, she may also incorporate earth-based or symbolic perspectives, drawing on cycles of growth, rest, loss, and renewal as supports for meaning-making and integration.

Heather has over 13 years of experience supporting individuals in healing and growth. She offers therapy to adults in Connecticut through in-person and telehealth sessions, and provides telehealth services to residents of New York. She works primarily in weekly or bi-weekly sessions and offers longer-term therapy for clients seeking lasting, integrated change. Her practice is private pay.