Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered
Coaching, Consulting, & Training
We facilitate equity-centered, compassionate growth in healthcare, education and leadership spaces. Transform your teams approach to providing care today for a more empathic tomorrow.
We’re grateful you are here,
Meet Heather Rist
Master clinician and subject matter expert on trauma-informed care, Heather has been providing clinical care, coaching, training, and consulting for over two decades. Compassionate, honest, direct, and funny, Heather engages in complex content, prioritizing psychological safety, connection, insight, and growth.
Heather is passionate about bringing compassionate care to those that work in the healthcare, education, and leadership industries.
What exactly does it mean to be…
Trauma Informed
Realizing that trauma results from chronic, toxic, and/or overwhelming stressful event(s). Trauma responses are normal, common, and healable.
Recognizingthe signs and symptoms of stress and trauma in ourselves and others.
Responding compassionately, utilizing neuroscience-informed principles to create safe relationships and healthy environments.
Resisting re-traumatization by incorporating trauma-informed principles into policy, practice, and procedure.
Healing Centered
Promoting resilience through education, support, and encouragement.
Fostering post-traumatic growth by looking for nuggets of wisdom and living with integrity.
Building connection and community by creating relationships and environments that promote consistency, safety, trust, care, and genuine connection.
Sharing hope for healing
Your Self, Your Life, Your Team, Your Business:
Let’s Learn & Grow Together
Community Wellness Webinars
Starting at $25
Coming Soon
Affordable webinars for any one wanting to enhance their knowledge about mental health, self-care, and emotional intelligence. Please note: these are not intended to replace professional medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice. These are for educational purposes only.
Please consult your clinician or provider with questions or concerns related to your specific needs.
Professional On-Demand Webinars
$100 - $250
Coming Soon
Educational webinars for educators, healthcare providers, and leaders on topics such as: trauma-informed care, trauma-informed service delivery, trauma-informed leadership, neurobiology and healing trauma, workplace wellbeing, stress management and burnout, healthy relationships, organizational change, and healing-centered care.
Organizational Consulting
Meet with Heather for a Free Quote
A trauma-informed, healing-centered approach can transform and elevate service delivery, achieve better patient health outcomes, enhance retention, and improve collegial relationships. Every organization is unique; therefore, consultation plans are created collaboratively based on strengths and needs to achieve your goals.
Elevating her knowledge, skill, and service delivery, Heather is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Behavioral Health program at Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies.
Advances in neuroscience and research have enhanced our knowledge and understanding of the brain, trauma responses, disease pathways, and improved interventions. Heather loves learning, writing, and sharing her research, insights, and ever-expanding nerddom in Our Collection of Wellness Articles.
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Building a Trauma-Informed,
Healing-Centered Community
What people are saying:
M. Lee Griffin, M.Ed.
Learning and Development Professional in Higher Education
“I am delighted to endorse Heather Rist, LPC, a highly skilled and compassionate therapist specializing in trauma-informed care. Heather Rist possesses a profound understanding of trauma and its impact, consistently demonstrating exceptional clinical expertise in guiding leaders and teams to create trauma-informed environments where everyone has the opportunity to grow and thrive.”
Training Participant
Prenatal and Early Childhood Coordinator
"Great presentation! I will carry this information with me for a lifetime."
Training Participant
Community Health Worker
"Heather did an amazing job and was very professional. Her presentation style and cultural humility was A+. She asked about Indigenous cultures and delivered the material in a very respectful and interactive way."
Trauma informed leadership, education, and support is for all people. Heather works with a wide variety of individuals professionally and believes in a wholistic approach to ones life, work, and impact.
Educators, healthcare providers, helpers, and healers - Thank you so much for the valuable work you do to make our world a better place. I can't wait to serve you.
With Care,Heather