Heather romero, MA, LPC, NCC

Adult Psychotherapist
​Email: Heather@healatl.com
​Phone: 833-HEAL-ATL ext. 6

Heather is an adult psychotherapist who approaches therapy with sensitivity, compassion, and encouragement. She believes in empowering her clients to tap into their strengths, intuition, self-love, and motivation. With a focus on high-school (18+), college-aged, and young professional women, Heather assists individuals in navigating their identities and healing from past traumas and harmful perspectives. She is particularly skilled in supporting women in their 30s and 40s as they navigate relationship challenges and contend with internal conflicts.

Heather incorporates mindfulness, breath work, acceptance, attunement, and understanding the nervous system into her practice. She values the partnership between client and clinician, evident in her body-based and EMDR practices, which allow clients the freedom to trust their body and mind in the healing process. Heather infuses sessions with humor and optimism, creating an environment conducive to deep work while providing moments of much-needed levity as clients navigate healing in an increasingly complicated world. In other words, we can all use a good laugh!

Heather’s love of learning enthusiastically informs her practice through interventions from a diverse range of modalities including Polyvagal Theory, Parts Work, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Processing, and Exposure Therapy. Her well-established yoga practice adds a spiritual dimension to her work, emphasizing connections to self, others, nature, and the greater good. Combining these interventions and influences creates an environment of learning, accountability, self-awareness, embodiment, compassion, trust in the self, and agency. Many sessions are challenging but deeply healing.

With a background working with vulnerable people, Heather is committed to inclusive and culturally relevant therapy. She views the advancement of the rights of all individuals as a personal and professional responsibility. She approaches her work through the lens of intersectional feminism, acknowledging systemic issues that influence each individual. Clients can expect to focus on practicing self-compassion and acceptance while navigating complex societal structures, empowering them to make meaningful contributions to their communities.

As a climate aware therapist and member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, Heather incorporates knowledge and interventions to address climate-related anxiety and existential concerns. She is currently undergoing continued training in EMDR through the EMDR Institute and is dedicated to providing LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy.

On weekends, you can find Heather indulging in a good meal or spa treatment and spending as much time as possible outside. She loves hanging with her infuriatingly stubborn, yet adorable, dachshunds and loving husband.

Heather Offers:

• Individual Counseling & Psychotherapy for Teens (16+) & Adults

Education

Masters of Arts | Professional Counseling | Liberty University

Bachelor of Arts | Major in Human Services | Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, Georgia 

License | Certifications

Licensed Professional Counselor | Georgia Secretary of State | LPC012917

Nationally Certified Counselor | National Board for Certified Counselors | #1012073

Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist- Individual (CCTS-I)

Memberships

Professional Member of EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

Member of The International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation

Languages

English

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers