Meet Your Therapist: Heather Tietjen-Mooney, LISW-S, LCSW
Heather Tietjen-Mooney is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster. With more than thirty years of experience, she has worked across private practice, psychiatric care, schools, community mental health, supportive housing, family services, and clinical leadership.
Her work focuses on trauma, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, narcissistic abuse, addiction, relationship patterns, and major life transitions. She works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families seeking greater clarity, emotional stability, healthier relationships, and a stronger sense of self.
Heather’s approach is trauma-informed, evidence-based, relational, and existential. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, psychodynamic and family systems perspectives, and expressive methods informed by art therapy.
Therapy is not limited to symptom reduction. It is also an exploration of meaning, identity, responsibility, choice, and the ways we want to live. Heather helps clients understand the experiences and patterns that have shaped them while developing practical skills to respond with greater intention.
Areas of Specialization
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Narcissistic abuse and relational trauma
- Personality disorders and complex relationship dynamics
- Anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation
- Addiction and recovery
- Grief, divorce, and significant life transitions
- Identity, purpose, and existential concerns
- Parent-child, couple, and family relationships
Heather has extensive experience helping clients recover from manipulation, coercive relationships, chronic invalidation, and the loss of self-trust that can occur within emotionally abusive systems. Her work with personality disorders is direct, compassionate, and grounded in accountability, emotional regulation, boundaries, and healthier interpersonal functioning.
A Practical and Reflective Approach
Therapy at Good Therapy combines meaningful reflection with practical change. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, strengthening emotional regulation, improving relationships, and applying insight to daily life.
Clients leave each session with a clearer understanding, a useful strategy, or a specific point of reflection to carry forward. The goal is not simply to feel better temporarily, but to develop greater self-trust, flexibility, resilience, and direction.
Professional Leadership
Throughout her career, Heather has developed clinical programs, supervised and trained mental health professionals, strengthened quality and documentation systems, and led services across complex community and institutional settings.
Her selection to the Fulbright Specialist Roster recognizes her experience in trauma-informed care, mental health systems, clinical education, program development, and cross-cultural professional collaboration.
Outside her clinical work, Heather is a painter, writer, traveler, and lifelong student of the relationship between creativity, meaning, and human resilience.
Good Therapy LLC offers thoughtful, clinically grounded care for people seeking meaningful and sustainable change.
Professional Associations
- National Association of Social Workers
- American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
- Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists