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Rabbi Heather Altman (She/they)
Practitioner at Heather Altman Healing
All Affiliations Served
872-800-6820
CHICAGO, Illinois
United States

About

I help people who want to be more seen and supported to increase their experiences of connection, compassion and comfort as they move through difficult past and present challenges to embody the life, practices, rituals and relationships that bring them meaning and ease. I weave together my decades of experience as a rabbi, spiritual director, and embodied healing practitioner in work with clients and guiding people in life cycle ceremonies. Areas of interest and expertise include: LGBTQIA +, neurodiversity, abuse and domestic violence, nervous system support, trauma healing, and sex, sexual trauma, sexuality, gender and relationship repair.

Listing Details

Clergy answered "Yes" to the following

  • Trained on LGBTQ+ identities within past five years
  • Experience officiating conversions for transgender and nonbinary individuals with a sensitivity to the wide range of relationships to gender and embodiment that transgender and nonbinary individuals may have
  • Experience in end-of-life care for LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating gender-expansive b-mitzvah
  • Familiar with gender-expansive Hebrew liturgical and linguistic options
  • Approaches the presence of LGBTQ+ people as the norm rather than an exception in Jewish communal life
  • Experience celebrating LGBTQ+ specific life-cycle rituals such as coming out and renaming
  • Person-centered and LGBTQ+ positive approach to Jewish law and tradition
  • Comfortable consistently using they/them pronouns and neopronouns
  • Speaks or writes regularly on LGBTQ+ themes
  • Experience in pastoral/spiritual care of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Experience officiating LGBTQ+ weddings