Meet Heather
Heather Jacobs, MPA, PCC, NBC-HWC
As a Transformative Wellbeing Coach, I meet clients precisely where they are, with unconditional positive regard. My coaching is dedicated to cultivating your innate wisdom and expanding your capacity for growth. I do not separate personal growth from the world around us. I recognize that individual wellbeing, community wellbeing, and the health of the wider living world are deeply intertwined. My lifelong commitment to justice, equity, and planetary wellbeing informs a coaching practice grounded in sustainable, high-impact change. For nearly a decade, I've coached hundreds of individuals across medical clinics, national health plans, and digital coaching platforms. Through this work, I've supported people navigating burnout, life transitions, uncertainty, and complexity. Again and again, I've seen the power of creating space to listen deeply to ourselves and to what this moment is asking of us. Whether you're returning to yourself after a season of overextension, reimagining your next chapter, or seeking steadiness amid personal and civic complexity, I offer a steady presence and a collaborative path forward.
Methodology and Approach
My approach is grounded in evidence-based practices and designed to cultivate emotional agility, resilience, and meaningful change. It is characterized by:
Systems-Aware Lens
Understanding that personal difficulties often emerge from the interaction between individual circumstances and broader systemic conditions.
Metaphor-Rich Insight
Using imagery and poetic wisdom to spark immediate clarity and help clients realign with their core values.
Practice‑Based Integration
Supporting clients in turning insight into embodied habits, sustainable choices, and real‑world shifts that hold up under pressure.
Partnership and Purpose
I partner with individuals and teams navigating complexity, transition, and burnout, especially those committed to living with intention, integrity, and presence. While much of my work is with change-makers, organizers, and civic and nonprofit leaders, I welcome anyone who recognizes that personal wellbeing is part of collective care.
My work invites insight, courage, and collective transformation, helping ensure that those who move the world can thrive while doing it.
What Shapes My Practice
I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Portland, Oregon region, including the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who have stewarded this land since time immemorial. I honor their enduring relationship with these lands, waters, and communities, and recognize the ongoing presence and contributions of Indigenous peoples today.
My understanding of suffering, resilience, and healing is informed by experiences that include living with Type 1 diabetes, periods of poverty, more than two decades of sobriety, and the lasting impacts of trauma. At the same time, I recognize that these experiences have unfolded within a society where my whiteness has granted me access, safety, and opportunities that are not equally available to everyone. I strive to remain aware of this reality and to approach my work with humility, curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to collective care.
Why I Choose to Coach
The Best Way I Can Meet This Moment.
In this moment of reckoning, renewal, and rising stakes, I've asked myself a simple but essential question: How do I meaningfully contribute to the world I long for, where humanity and life can flourish for generations to come?
✨ By helping people take radically good care of themselves.
Flourishing begins with where — and how — we place our care.
In a time of climate disruption, rising authoritarianism, and widening inequality, the question of hope feels urgent. I do not coach from blind optimism. I coach from a grounded belief in our innate capacity to co-create a more humane and resilient world.
Coaching is one way we tend the soil. It is a practice of care that helps people:
- •Reconnect with their values
- •Reclaim their agency
- •Reawaken their capacity to feel, choose, and act with intention — so that their daily actions reflect their deepest commitments
It can interrupt cycles of burnout, disconnection, and overwhelm — patterns that keep us stuck in reactivity or depletion. It can create space for rest, creativity, and renewed purpose.
It can cultivate emotional intelligence, which supports collaboration, conflict navigation, and compassionate leadership.
It invites people to explore what it means to live in alignment with their values, their communities, and the living world.
This work honors the seasons of life: times of growth, grief, transition, and return. It welcomes those restoring themselves, supporting others, or rising to meet this moment with care for the world.
Whether someone is returning to themselves after a season of disconnection, moving through a life transition, reimagining their purpose, or seeking clarity in uncertain times, coaching can meet them there. It is relational, regenerative, and deeply human.
You do not have to have it all figured out. You only have to take the first step and trust that the path will unfold.
This is why I coach.
If you are ready to explore that first step, I would be honored to walk alongside you. Your invitation to connect is below.
What clients say
"I started my growth journey with Heather a little over four years ago. It was at a point when I was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'! Heather’s ability to hold space for me, allowing me to be open and transparent, and allowing me to start what has been a long journey of deep self reflection work is excellent. At the time, I didn’t know what I needed, but Heather is skilled at helping someone to identify the root cause versus treating the symptoms. I so enjoyed my talks with Heather as our discussions allowed me to begin seeing the light while in a dark place. If you willing to start doing the deep work necessary to make changes in your life, I encourage you to reach out to Heather!"
Certifications
