Kendall Heiman

Kendall believes that the therapeutic relationship is central to change. She is well-known for the depth of knowledge and experience she possesses. She is also known for her unfailing passion, energy, and quick-wit, and for infusing disarming doses of levity into her interactions with clients. She is especially talented at cultivating therapeutic rapport with resistant and ambivalent clients and anticipates resistance and ambivalence as normal components of any treatment process. Kendall utilizes relational approaches to therapy. She collaborates with her clients to assist them in developing a deep and meaningful understanding of conditions and circumstances that are creating distress. She helps her clients to gain insight into the function of substance abuse/addiction in their lives, to expand their ability to tolerate distress, and to gradually replace the function of addiction with skill gradually replace the function of addiction with skillful, adaptive means of coping. She emphasizes the development and ongoing cultivation of supportive, differentiated, interpersonal relationships to enhance prognosis for long-term recovery.