· Certified Counselor Supervisor by North Texas State University in January 2001.
· Licensed Professional Counselor with two-year internship in the private practice of John M. Talmadge, M.D. using cognitive, behavioral and transpersonal methods.
· Director of the Creative Life Center 1992. Founded and organized mental health services for Unity Church including: referral to mental health professionals, intakes, volunteer training, manage task teams to offer support groups and coordinate educational speakers and programs.

Training Topics
· Emotional Intelligence: Putting Quality in Your Life full day training for corporate clients. Includes the EQMap 20-scale measurement instrument and implementation workbook.
· Your Personal Archetypes retreat and series focusing on your life's purpose and mission from several revealing metaphorical perspectives.
· Grief Recovery Group, 6-week or 12-week series of classes including workbook.
· 15-week series Using the Enneagram Personality Style Indicator for Psychological and Spiritual Growth.
· Facilitating The Future is Now! Retreats.
· Certified for Prepare/Enrich marriage enrichment and pre-marital assessment and seminar.
· Lecture and process group for 1.5 years using psycho-educational material on relationships (includes Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Love Addiction, etc).
· Couples groups: Using the Enneagram for Marriage Enrichment six-week series, TIME for a Better Marriage ten-week marriage enrichment series.
· Group training and facilitating for New Beginnings nine-week step-family and single parenting series.

Seminars/Presentations
· Creator and presentor of ReWriting Your Future Seminars sm: Integrating Personality with Purpose and Mission. Ten-module (30 weeknights) group seminar intensive covering family-of-origin roles, personality style, values clarification, life purpose, scripting, goal setting, closing with the theory and practices of self-motivation, since 1993.
· Facilitate Jean Houston's Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self, 8-week group 2001.
· Corporate seminars, contract instructor (clients such as: Anderson Consulting, AT&T, Chase Bank, Ericsson, Inc., GM, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Nations Bank, Texas Commerce Bank) on topics such as: Emotional Intelligence, Secrets of Successful Thinkers, Managing Stress: The Road to Resiliency, Setting Limits and Delegating, Overcoming Procrastination, Taking Care of Yourself During Times of Change, Managing Expectations, Attitudes and Guilt. 1994-2001.
· University and College Metroplex Area Consortium Career Centers: Career Advancement, I'd Follow My Bliss if I Knew Where to Find It! seminar and talk 1998-2000.
· New Directions Consulting Seminar: Management of Diversity in the Workplace 1998.
· Lecture on stress management for Human Resources employees of Texas Workforce Commission 1997.
· Instruct Graduate Psychological Testing class at Amberton University on use of the Enneagram for personality style assessment.
· Break out session for Texas Marriage and Family Counselors Association Annual Conference: Daughters in Danger.
· Break out session for Texas Counseling Association Annual Conference: Avoiding Ethical Violations: Transference and Counter-transference; lecture for LPC ethics continuing education units, Avoiding Ethical Violations: A Timeline Approach.
· Other topics: Anger Management, Emotional Intelligence, Ethics, Mature Relationships, The Role of Women in Today's Society.
· Assist John Talmadge, M.D. with The Mastery Program intensive weekend workshop on self-mastery. Use the Enneagram personality style for personality typology.

Professional Speaking and Retreat Topics (Outlines available)
· Secrets of Skillful Thinkers: Creating Super Highways in Your BrainSM (Thinking Skills).
· Are You on Fire? or Are You Burning Out? Taking Your Power BackSM (Stress Reduction).
· Building Noble Character sm (Principled and Virtuous Living).
· I'd Follow My Bliss If I Knew Where to Find It: The Pursuit of PassionSM (Values, Vision and Mission).
· The Future is Now! The Art of Advanced Goal-Setting sm (Goal-Setting, Obstacles and Motivation).
· Emotional Intelligence: Adding Quality to Your Life sm (Emotional Acuity, Life Balance, Resilience, Interactive Ability, Constructive Discontent, Compassion and Trust Radius).
· Love Me, Love My Man (For women, focusing on self nurturance and gender empathy).

Publications
· Interviewed by True North: Faith and Values TV on The Hallmark Channel on marriage counseling and the costs of divorce. A couple, whose marriage Heather helped save, were also interviewed.
· Interviewed by and quoted in Dallas Morning News in You're Not Invited: Although weddings are meant to unite family, more couples are leaving parents off the guest list by Karen Rangel.
· Email newsletter, Illuminated Living, 20 bi-weekly issues.

Education
· C.D. Cultural Doctorate in Humane Letters awarded 2001 by the World University Roundtable, Benson, Arizona.
· M.A. in Counseling Psychology 1993 from Amberton University, Garland Texas.
· Instutute in Counselor Supervision, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
· School for Social Artists 2002 with Dr. Jean Houston, Portland, Oregon.
· Level I Certification in Spiral Dynamics: A PsychoSocioPolitical Model, The National Values Center, Dallas, Texas.
· The Hogan Center for Performance Excellence: Leadership Skills for Executives.
· The Hogan Center for Performance Excellence: Quality Leadership & Implementation seminar.
· Certified for Prepare/Enrich marriage enrichment and pre-marital assessment.
· Certification as Ethics Trainer from the Josephson Institute and Character Counts! Coalition.
· Carlson Learning Company, Administering Coping & Stress Profile.
· Masters level Group Therapy and Sensitivity Training from East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
· Creative Writing and Drawing classes 1988 from Richland College, Dallas, Texas.
· B.F.A. in Drama 1972 from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
· Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts.

Professional Associations
· American Counseling Association
· American Mental Health Counselors Association
· Character Counts! Coalition
· Dallas Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
· North Metro Counseling Association
· Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
· Texas Counseling Association

Special Interests: Argentine Tango, archetypes, painting watercolors, writing new curriculum, jazz, opera, walking, international travel, sabbaticals and a passion for my husband, composer, Jack Waldenmaier!