ABOUT ME

CHRISTIE HEBERT, MS, LPC, NCC

Prior to starting my own private practice in Gold Canyon, Arizona, I was a Clinical Therapist at both the world-renowned Meadows and the Rosewood Center for Eating Disorders in Wickenburg, AZ.  While practicing at these facilities, I was fortunate to learn from their senior fellows, Pia Mellody, Bessel-Van Der Kolk, Peter Levine, John Brashaw and others, all leaders in the field of trauma and addiction.  Through practicing their work, I developed a keen interest in the treatment of trauma, and eventually family/relationship dynamics, as it became clear to me that our ability to “heal” from our traumas/emotional injuries is directly related to our ability to have healthy, safe relationships with others.  Decades of research has proven to us that we don’t do our best in isolation, as this leads to addiction, toxic shame, negative belief systems and other unhealthy states of being.  Unfortunately, many have learned through their family of origin and/or abusive relationships along the way that being “relational” is traumatizing in itself and so we have developed layers of automatic survival mechanisms to protect ourselves from others rather than connect to others.  This creates a loss of self, loss of direction and loss of inherent self-worth.