Heather's model for human empowerment balances six interdependent areas for health: physical, instinctual, emotional, mental, spiritual and relational. She advocates that society currently over-values mental or intellectual aspects, thereby neglecting mature, balanced experience and expression on the other levels of being.

Heather Carlile is a graduate of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with a Bachelors degree and of Amberton University in Dallas, Texas with a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology. She completed her internship as a professional counselor under John M. Talmadge, M.D.

Dear Visitors to My Web Site,

I take advantage of my own experiences in life as well as my schooling in psychology and my on-going reading and exploring to continuously develop new counseling techniques. My resources are constantly renewed with the plethora of new knowledge and writings available every year in this pioneering profession (see Ken Wilbur's new book, Integral Institute).

My most recent work has taken me into teaching a synthesis of archetypes (or roles) from the private and the personal (see my Fairy Tale exercise from ReWriting Your Future), to the cultural and universal (see Spiral Dynamics).

I designed this website to be useful to you even if you can't come to see me in person in my office in Richardson, Texas nor schedule time with me for a phone session. I hope that you discover something here that helps you improve your quality of life.

I wish Illuminated Living for you and your dear ones,

Heather