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Hi, I'm Heather. This is a snippet of my history as it relates to why I'm here today, and founding this healing collaborative and mental health practice, Good Alchemy Therapies.
In 2007, I started a small healing arts and consulting business in Portland, Oregon, called Dharmaworks. In 2009, when the practice moved with me to Ann Arbor, Michigan, I continued teaching yoga and bodywork for ten years while gaining experience as a high school classroom teacher, organizational leader, and parent.
Lifelong learning is one of my core values. I studied Clinical Mental Health Counseling and earned my Master of Arts in 2021. I completed my clinical internship as a therapist with The Women's Center of Southeastern Michigan, a nonprofit organization that provides therapy and other women-supportive services to help individuals achieve economic and emotional health. I've been a sexual assault crisis line advocate and responder and continue to support people in healing from sexual violence, assault, and trauma.
I've worked in both community mental health and group practice, and completed a post-graduate fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in 2022. My continuing education to date ranges from gender-diverse approaches to treatment to somatic therapies, internal family systems, and mindfulness-based dialectical behavioral therapy. I have a flexible approach and enjoy adapting my style to fit the presenting needs and qualities of each client, couple, or group. Beginning in October 2023, I started working in private practice serving individuals, couples, families, and groups with sliding scale, out-of-pocket fee structure. What prompted my leap in this direction was experiencing many negatives of the mental health care system in the context of private and group practices. They seemed more invested in profit than people, more capitalistic than caring. These settings and businesses weren't ultimately congruent with my own values and ethics as a clinician, and propelled me to take my work a step further in creating Good Alchemy Therapies. It is my hope that this collective work can add content, value, and accessibility to quality mental health support and resources for the greater good.
In 2007, I started a small healing arts and consulting business in Portland, Oregon, called Dharmaworks. In 2009, when the practice moved with me to Ann Arbor, Michigan, I continued teaching yoga and bodywork for ten years while gaining experience as a high school classroom teacher, organizational leader, and parent.
Lifelong learning is one of my core values. I studied Clinical Mental Health Counseling and earned my Master of Arts in 2021. I completed my clinical internship as a therapist with The Women's Center of Southeastern Michigan, a nonprofit organization that provides therapy and other women-supportive services to help individuals achieve economic and emotional health. I've been a sexual assault crisis line advocate and responder and continue to support people in healing from sexual violence, assault, and trauma.
I've worked in both community mental health and group practice, and completed a post-graduate fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in 2022. My continuing education to date ranges from gender-diverse approaches to treatment to somatic therapies, internal family systems, and mindfulness-based dialectical behavioral therapy. I have a flexible approach and enjoy adapting my style to fit the presenting needs and qualities of each client, couple, or group. Beginning in October 2023, I started working in private practice serving individuals, couples, families, and groups with sliding scale, out-of-pocket fee structure. What prompted my leap in this direction was experiencing many negatives of the mental health care system in the context of private and group practices. They seemed more invested in profit than people, more capitalistic than caring. These settings and businesses weren't ultimately congruent with my own values and ethics as a clinician, and propelled me to take my work a step further in creating Good Alchemy Therapies. It is my hope that this collective work can add content, value, and accessibility to quality mental health support and resources for the greater good.
Testimonials
Heather is an amazing counselor and human being! She has helped me so much over the years. Her knowledge and reflections have literally changed the course of my life in miraculous ways!!
-C.C.
Heather Good possesses powerful gifts of intuition and communication. I always find her insights spot-on, deeply illuminating, and extraordinarily refreshing. I have worked and studied with some of the best, and Heather is most definitely one of them in my book.
-A.N.
