Marieke Heatwole

Marieke is a passionate mental health advocate, serving both patients and community, including as a 2-time member of the Alaska Mental Health Board. 

Known for her warm, thoughtful, and holistic approach, Marieke creates a space where people can feel seen, understood, and supported as they navigate life's challenges. She is deeply committed to helping individuals build meaningful, sustainable change by honoring the unique experiences, strengths, and goals each person brings to the therapeutic process. 

Outside of her work, Marieke is a metal sculptor, gardener, cyclist, and mother of two. Her creativity, curiosity, and appreciation for the many ways people grow and heal inform both her life and her practice.

Certifications

• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP-BC

• Functional Psychiatry Fellow (Adults)

Education

• MSN, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Areas of Focus

• Chronic mental illness

• Bipolar disorder

• Anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue

• ADHD, including natural treatment plans that restore focus and attention 

• Nutritional Psychiatry: you are what you eat, and what you don’t (or don’t absorb)

• Substance abuse/addiction: using too much weed, phones, shopping, sex, porn, alcohol, lies

• Deprescribing, including hyperbolic tapering to safely and comfortably discontinue medications

• Management of protracted withdrawal symptoms

• Genetic testing

• Trauma therapy

Trained In

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Somatic Processing (Natural Processing for EMDR)