The Full Story

About Heather Samarron

About Me As a Person

I firmly believe clients deserve to know at least a bit about me as a person, if I am asking people to trust me with their personhood. So, to begin with, I use they/she pronouns to reflect my evolving relationship with my gender; as much as I dislike the connotation, I am one of those millennials you’ve been warned about; and I have been hopelessly in love with stories and books for as long as I can remember. I am a settler to both Calgary and Canada, with my ancestors coming from England and Scotland and myself having moved from Sunnyvale, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area) in 2014. Why might someone move from a vacation capital of the world to somewhere that’s colder than mars a disturbing number of days, you may be wondering? Because I wanted to return to school for social work and the privilege of my dual-citizenship-from-birth made that an achievable goal in Canada. While the winters are still rough, I have since graduated with my Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Calgary and my Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University, and I am humbled to now be working in a field I am genuinely passionate about.

About Me As a Therapist

As a therapist, my theoretical foundation is Narrative Therapy because it allows me to work from a place of awe. I’m in awe of individuals and the stories they carry, in awe of the resilience people show in their everyday life, and in awe of the worlds that scholars, activists, and the extraordinary efforts that ordinary citizens are putting into to building a better world for future generations. There is nothing as fascinating to me as a person, any person, and this fascination is part of what drew me to the practice of sex therapy. Sex is a topic that is at once shared and private, and we have done a disservice to many generations with our collective unwillingness to acknowledge its importance. I am dedicated to ongoing learning, with hopes of helping generate knowledge, because clients deserve nothing less.