Heather Williams Keyes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Social Work Manager in Lynchburg, Virginia. She has over 20 years of experience as a social worker working with individuals across the life span. Heather graduated from Longwood University with a bachelor’s
degree in social work. She then went on to receive her master’s in social work at Radford University. She has worked in a variety of settings during her career to include outpatient, inpatient, emergency services, substance use treatment, foster care, healthcare facilities. She is currently in the role of Director of Behavioral Health at a Federally Qualified Health Center look-a-like in Lynchburg, Virginia. In this role and a previous role of the same setting, she has developed programs for integrated care and supported medical professionals in bridging the gap between physical health and emotional health.
She is passionate about holistic care and supporting patients to see the connection between their brain and their body. She is the Trauma Informed Champion in her current role. In this capacity, she has helped leadership develop trauma informed practices in the clinic. She is also the owner of Resiliency Counseling and Consulting, LLC where she works with individuals, families, students and local businesses to address burnout, undermotivation, emotional and physical health to be successful in living a resilient life. She has served on boards for Emergency Services at the state level task with process and flow for state-wide initiatives. She is currently on the board of her local Continuum of Care which supports the homeless response services in Lynchburg, Virginia and the surrounding counties. She received the Behavioral Health Team of the Year award in 2017 from the Virginia Healthcare Foundation. She lives in Lynchburg, Virginia with her husband, three sons, 2 dogs and a cat. She has the pleasure of being a bonus mom and has a total of 8 children and five grandchildren. She enjoys the outdoors/nature, reading and cooking.
