Heather Spooner serves as the Clinical Lead for Telehealth and Disaster Response for Creative Forces. She is a board-certified art therapist who earned a BA in Art with a minor in Psychology from the University of Tampa and an MA in Art Therapy from Marywood University. Heather was part of the team that founded the Rural Veterans Telerehabilitation Initiative Creative Arts Therapy Project (RVTRI CAT) in 2014. The network of VA sites offers creative arts therapies programs, primarily through telehealth, for rural Veterans. Through her role with HJF, Heather provides leadership support for telehealth programs across the network and is the lead for Creative Forces’ pilot programming on the role of the arts and creative arts therapies in disaster response. Heather is currently engaged in art therapy research projects related to the neurophysiological response to art therapy for Veterans with PTSD and manualization of an art therapy telehealth protocol. The research is in partnership with HJF/Creative Forces, Drexel University, and the University of Florida, where she is an Associate Scholar and serves as graduate faculty with the UF Center for Arts in Medicine.