Welcome to my website, I am so glad you're here! I'm Heather Moon Vogels, a therapist with over 20 years of experience, and specialise in guiding teens, young adults, and adults through overcoming the obstacles that limit them from truly thriving in their lives. I work with a wide range of difficulties to help heal and recover from a feeling of being disconnected with yourself and life's purpose, stress and overwhelm, developmental and attachment trauma, self-harm, disordered eating, dependencies, and relationship and expat challenges.
In addition, I also support athletes, performers, and anyone navigating high-pressure moments. whether in sport, the arts, exams, job interviews, or important conversations at work or in relationships. Drawing on my own background as a competitive rower alongside training in performance psychology, I help people regulate their nervous system, access resilience, and show up from a more authentic and aligned place.
My approach is
trauma informed and emphasises the nervous system's role in emotional regulation and healing. I draw from modalities developed by Pia Mellody and Internal Family Systems Therapy as well as somatic healing and integration. I combine these insights with evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, somatic, holistic, and compassion-based techniques to help those I collaborate with find healing and connection.
Understanding how trauma impacts the body, mind and spirit, and disconnects us from our authentic self, I use a comprehensive, integrative approach to help individuals reconnect with their inner resilience and align with their authentic self. My methods aim to facilitate emotional safety through our therapeutic relationship, and encourage deeper self-awareness, enabling clients to heal from past wounds. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, stress, life changes, depression, low motivation, addiction, dependencies, body image, food, or relational difficulties, I provide a compassionate space where transformative growth can occur. With online sessions, you can access this personalised care from the comfort of your home.
With over 20 years of experience, I specialize in trauma informed therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, dependencies, addiction, and trauma. I am originally from the US, but have lived and worked in Switzerland, England and Austria. Having lived abroad myself and needed to build a new life, career and community, I am also aware of the unique stressors that expats and their families face.
In addition to my work with trauma and emotional healing, I bring a unique perspective to supporting athletes and high performers. As a former competitive rower who has raced at the World Championships and earned multiple national titles, I understand firsthand the intense mental and physical demands of sport. My own experiences in traini
In addition to my work with trauma and emotional healing, I bring a unique perspective to supporting athletes and high performers. As a former competitive rower who has raced at the World Championships and earned multiple national titles, I understand firsthand the intense mental and physical demands of sport. My own experiences in training and competition have shaped how I help athletes navigate the pressures of performance, setbacks, and recovery.
I integrate parts work with somatic practices to help athletes deepen their awareness of how the nervous system influences focus, resilience, and recovery. This approach allows performers to recognize and regulate stress responses, engage with their inner resources more effectively, and transform unhelpful patterns into strengths. By working with the whole person, not just the athlete, I guide clients in developing balance between drive and rest, discipline and self-compassion, performance and well-being.
Whether preparing for competition, recovering from injury, or striving to reach the next level of performance, my approach blends cutting-edge neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and lived experience as a high-level athlete to create a uniquely tailored path to sustainable success.
My approach is client-centered, collaborative, trauma informed and evidence-based. I prioritize building a trusting and safe therapeutic relationship. Together we begin to identify, make sense of and understand the patterns, survival strategies and nervous system responses that have both helped you to adapt and survive, but also can be limiting or keep you feeling stuck.
I am originally from Vermont, USA, where I first began my training in psychology. Unsure at the time whether to follow my passion for art or psychology, I took a period away from academics to dedicate myself to competitive rowing, a pursuit that taught me resilience, focus, and the importance of mind-body connection. In the end, both the
I am originally from Vermont, USA, where I first began my training in psychology. Unsure at the time whether to follow my passion for art or psychology, I took a period away from academics to dedicate myself to competitive rowing, a pursuit that taught me resilience, focus, and the importance of mind-body connection. In the end, both the arts and psychology called me back, and I returned to complete my graduate degree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, becoming licensed in counseling psychology.
I began my career working in addiction treatment, guided by the understanding that trauma often lies at the core of addictive processes. This insight has shaped my work ever since, leading me to pursue advanced trainings in trauma healing and integrative approaches that support people in truly and deeply recovering and reconnecting with themselves.
Life often asks us to “perform” in ways that go far beyond sports or the stage. Sitting for an exam, walking into a job interview, sharing your art, giving a presentation, or having a difficult conversation with a partner, colleague, or child can all stir up the same nerves, doubts, or inner conflicts that athletes feel before competition.
In these moments, many of us find ourselves pulled between different inner voices—the part that wants to achieve, the part that fears failure, the part that longs to be seen, or the part that wants to hide. My work brings together parts work and somatic approaches to help you meet these parts with compassion and understanding. When we listen to them instead of pushing them away, something powerful happens: we gain access to a calmer, more authentic self that can respond with clarity, confidence, and alignment.
This process is not only about managing stress—it’s about learning to trust yourself more deeply. From that place of inner alignment, it becomes possible to approach relationships, work, creativity, and life’s challenges with greater presence, resilience, and authenticity
Explore your values, goals, and beliefs to gain insight and clarity and become more aligned with your authentic self, identity and purpose. Explore and understand your limiting beliefs and patterns of survival based nervous system responses. Having been both a psychologist and a competitive rower, I know what it means to face moments where everything feels at stake. I draw on my personal and professional experience, along with the latest research in neuroscience and trauma healing, to create a supportive, tailored approach for each individual. Whether you’re preparing for a competition, stepping into an interview, navigating a tough relationship, or simply wanting to feel more present and confident in your daily life, this work can help you access a deeper sense of balance and clarity.
Learn how to cultivate a more present and mindful approach to life, and reduce stress and anxiety. Explore and gain understanding into your nervous system states and develop strategies to help gain more flexibility and freedom.
Learn to lean into a compassion for self and all of your parts that have helped protect you. while gently loosening and shifting the strategies that no longer serve you or are in alignment. Focus on your strengths and develop habits that support your wellbeing.
Learn how to communicate effectively, implement effective boundaries, repair relational ruptures, resolve conflicts, and build stronger, healthier relationships.