Therapy with Heather

Hi - I’m Heather Hodge.

I provide individual and couples therapy built on a deeply trauma-informed, holistic foundation. By meeting you with compassion, we explore the barriers and emotional wounds that keep you stuck, guiding you toward lasting change and a sense of internal wholeness.

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You’ve already been through the hard part. Therapy is your place to land, recover, and start to live from your power.

I help the journey make sense by offering direction and walking beside you through life’s ups and downs.

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Looking for
real change?

Self-confidence, stronger relationships, and showing up for yourself?

Maybe you're carrying the weight of past trauma, feeling stuck in depleting patterns, and you don't have the words to communicate what's happening for you in your relationships. You don't have to be stuck feeling alone.

I provide a supportive, exploratory space where all parts of you are welcome - as intelligent strategies that have kept you going through some tough shit. You don't need to show up perfect-together, we’ll explore what's stirring beneath the surface and you’ll have the tools to know how to meet yourself and life with kindness, confidence, and a plethora of tools.

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See how we can work together

What It's Like to Work With Me

I work from a big toolbox of therapeutic approaches-somatic work, brainspotting, IFS, Gestalt, expressive arts, attachment theory - and I draw on what your system needs most in any given session. Sometimes we'll use just one approach. Other times we'll blend several. It's all about meeting you where you are.

<< Here's what the journey typically looks like.

Step 01

Building Safety & Nervous System Regulation

Before anything else, your body needs to know it can relax here.

Our first few sessions focus on helping your nervous system settle. We're learning to attune to each other. We're creating a strong container to hold what you're bringing in as we work towards unburdening. We're creating a space where you can finally exhale.

You might notice: Your shoulders dropping. Breathing more deeply. Less urgency to fix everything right away.

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Step 02

Understanding Your Patterns (The 'Why')

Now we map the territory-why you respond the way you do.

We explore the patterns running your life. Why you shut down in conflict. Why vulnerability feels dangerous. Why you give to others but struggle to ask for what you need. We understand these as intelligent adaptations, not flaws.

You might notice: Things clicking into place. 'Oh, that's why I do that.' Curiosity replacing shame.

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Step 03

Working Through
What Lives in Your Body

Insight alone doesn't create change-we work with what's stored somatically.

We bring in body-based approaches to process what talk therapy alone can't reach. The tightness in your chest. The emotions that got stuck. We help your nervous system complete what it couldn't process at the time.

You might notice: Emotions moving through instead of getting stuck. Physical tension releasing. Old wounds healing at a somatic level.

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Step 04

Practicing New
Ways of Being

Understanding isn't enough-we practice choosing differently in real time.

You start experimenting with different responses in your actual life. Setting boundaries. Speaking your truth. Catching yourself before falling into old patterns. This phase can be messy, but I will help minimize the mess-we're building your capacity to choose health over unhelpful conditioning.

You might notice: More agency in your relationships. Small moments of choosing yourself. Relationships shifting because you're showing up differently.

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Step 05

Integration & Becoming Your Own Guide

The work becomes something you carry within you.

Therapy starts to feel less urgent. You've built a sturdy relationship with yourself and know how to navigate the hard stuff. We space out sessions as you test your wings and discover you can handle challenges on your own.

You might notice: Quiet confidence. Trusting your own process. Coming home to you, empowered to live your life to the fullest, on your own terms and free from whatever had been holding you back for so long.

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This isn't linear-and that's completely normal.

Some weeks we'll make huge strides. Other weeks we'll circle back to integrate new insights more deeply. Both are part of the process.

My role is to walk alongside you, hold the bigger picture when you can't see it, and meet you exactly where you are with whatever approach your system needs most.

Whether you’re an individual or couple, my approach is designed to support your journey to clarity.

Here’s how we can
Work Together

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Individual Therapy

You're Ready for your purpose-driven life, but struggling to progress.

This is your space for exploration, learning, and launching a life true to you. My approach is holistic, integrating somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, Internal Family Systems, Gestalt, and Expressive Arts Therapy to help you make sense of your experiences and reconnect with yourself.

Live your life with more choice, creativity, and enjoyment.

Individual therapy supports:

PTSD, trauma, grief and depression
Identity development and Self-esteem
ADHD and Neurodivergence
Relationship and social anxiety
Big life transitions: starting school, career shifts, marriage

Learn More About Individual Therapy

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“Heather has an incredible ability to listen for what you’re not saying, and help bring forth the patterns and thoughts that are hiding in the background and holding you back. She's attentive, understanding, and compassionate. I feel like she's able to connect with others who have struggled with identity and trauma greatly.”

-Don Thompson

Parent Coach, owner of DLt Coaching

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Couples Therapy

Feel empowered with clarity, direction, and communication Tools that transforms cycles of disharmony, conflict, and resentment into understanding, insight, and growth together.

I support couples in learning about themselves and the unspoken parts of their partner that are driving the relationship. My clients will develop tools and techniques to decrease conflict and confusion, and promote recognizing what you’re feeling, sensing, and reacting to as it happens, and how to meet each other when you want and need different things. By facilitating a deeper awareness of your own experience, new ways of relating can begin to unfold naturally between you, and my couples are blown away by the new sense of love, respect, and growth available to them.

Couples therapy supports:

Communication breakdowns, disconnection and recurring conflicts
Preparing for transitions: Pre-marital counseling, moving in together, life changes
Enhancing Intimacy, pleasure, and connection for yourself and your relationship

Learn More About Couples Therapy

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“Heather is a compassionate and focused clinician dedicated to the healing journey, helping find that space of push for growth just outside the typical pattern. Her comfort with the uncomfortable broadly supports each of the specific modalities she continues to seek out and refine. I believe she would be a particularly good fit for those managing high anxiety, depression and grief, neurodivergence, and those navigating transitional periods.”

Alisha Borges

Dance Movement Therapist / Bee Keeper

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READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?

You don't need to have it all figured out before we talk. Book your free 20-minute consultation and let's explore what's bringing you here—what you're hoping for, and whether working together feels like the right fit.

No pressure. Just connection.