Heather Evans

Dr. Heather Evans is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private group counseling practice in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. She has over 20 years experience providing individual, marriage, and family therapy to children, adolescents, and adults in inpatient, outpatient, nonprofit and residential settings. She has extensive training and experience with women's issues, particularly sexual trauma, sex trafficking and aftercare of its victims. Heather received a Doctor of Clinical Social Work degree from University of Pennsylvania and her dissertation highlighted complex trauma and posttraumatic growth in victims of domestic sex trafficking. From this dissertation, emerged the Voices of Survivors Project, a photo exhibit highlighting the photos of domestic sex trafficking survivors, and her first two books, "From the Voices of Domestic Sex Trafficking Survivors: Photographic Expressions of Complex Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth" and "Understanding Complex Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth in Survivors of Sex Trafficking Foregrounding Women’s Voices for Effective Care and Prevention." Heather is Co-founder and Vice Chair of VAST (Valley Against Sex Trafficking) Coalition in the Lehigh Valley, PA. She is devoted to training and equipping service providers. Heather is adjunct professor of Global Trauma Recovery Institute at Missio Seminary and travels and leads trips nationally and internationally, with the goal of partnering with and training trauma healing caregivers.