Healing Hearts and Minds by Tracy Livecchi

They have combined their experiences, knowledge, and efforts to write a book “Healing Hearts and Minds: A Guide to Coping Well With Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). Recently, she teamed up with Liza Morton, another adult with a congenital heart condition. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters. She is the Mental Health Consultant for the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s Peer Mentorship Program and speaks nationwide on the importance of addressing the psychosocial effects of heart disease. She works from an eclectic theoretical orientation and provides supportive counseling while also utilizing cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed, mindfulness approaches, when appropriate. A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease (Kindle Edition). She has been working as a psychotherapist in private practice since 1998, and currently provides psychotherapy to individual adults, adolescents, and couples in her Westport practice. Book Cover of Tracy Livecchi, Liza Morton - Healing Hearts and Minds: A. She has worked in a variety of settings as a private therapist, a clinical director, as well as a consultant for long-term care in hospital settings. Tracy Livecchi received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Rutgers University.

What are some special considerations that need to be made for the mental health of someone born with a cardiac condition? Why should there be a book specifically for understanding the mental and emotional development of people born with critical congenital heart conditions requiring multiple open-heart surgeries? What makes counselors, born with congenital cardiac conditions themselves, the perfect people to write such a book?

Healing Hearts and Minds by Tracy Livecchi