About Dr. Heather

Dr. Heather Uncapher is a Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Heather has over 20 years of therapy experience helping others through various life challenges.

She provides virtual and phone wellness coaching. She uses positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and medical research to help clients to achieve their optimum level of life satisfaction and quality of life.

Dr. Heather will help you defeat your limiting beliefs, change your bad habits, and uncover your strengths so that you can grow, flourish and thrive.

Bio

Dr. Heather graduated in 1995 with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the APA-accredited Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in California. Her dissertation work examined hopelessness, depressive symptoms, and suicidal thinking in older adults. After obtaining her Ph.D., she was awarded a three year National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship in Clinical Services Research to continue to study depression and suicidal thinking. She pursued this depression research in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Later, Dr. Heather taught in the Department of Psychiatry in the Medical School at Wake Forest University as a full-time academic assistant professor. She continued her research and used cognitive-behavioral strategies to treat depressed and anxious patients.

Dr. Uncapher is an academic scholar with her research papers listed in the National Library of Medicine (see link www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez). She has published seven scientific papers, two medical book chapters, and numerous abstracts for medical research conferences. Her research is influential in healthcare policy in the United States and abroad. Her papers have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Japanese, and have been condensed and referenced in many U.S. and international journals, medical newsletters, review articles, and review textbooks. Her research papers have been graduate level reading in several universities and colleges, including University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, University of California, San Francisco, UCLA, and Stanford University.

In her spare time, Dr. Heather enjoys skiing, paddle boarding, nature and spending time with her friends and family.