Tracey Pearson-Heaney, LPC, LCPC

I am an experienced therapist with a desire to help adults and teens heal from trauma, depression and anxiety.

I have been practicing as a therapist for over 12 years. I find joy in supporting clients as they overcome their unique challenges in life. My goal as a therapist is to encourage clients to begin the process of learning to make changes. My personality mirrors my counseling style. I am a supportive, compassionate, and Holistic therapist. This means I provide a supportive environment along with an overall counseling experience designed to encourage clients to heal. While I provide an emotionally safe place for Healing, I also challenge clients to "do their own work". This means clients are expected to be engaged in the counseling process. Clients need to be willing to take chances by trying new ways to experience life or simply learn to set boundaries that will promote healing in the client's life. Sometimes the path toward change is a combination of changing behaviors, developing healthy habits or finding the best medication to help alleviate the symptoms of a mental health diagnosis. I believe this work is critical for clients to heal from the past and begin to maintain a life that is less stressful, and more satisfying.
In closing, I can't guarantee that life will be full of exciting and fun times in the future. What I do know is that we all have the capability to create change for ourselves. The challenge for both the therapist and the client is to find the most helpful path toward that change.
The reality of life is that life is unpredictable. Counseling won't change that. Counseling will however enable clients to assess the situation, understand if things can be changed, understand that we can choose to make the change, or not and finally to enable clients to have the tools necessary to create change that can be fulfilling yet challenging despite life's uncertainties.