Therapy & Counseling

Where the hearth is banked low and steady.

Trauma focused, relational care held with warmth and skill.

This is the most structured offering at Anam Hearth. This is a place where healing is held with clarity, containment and skilled support. Therapy here is trauma-informed, body-aware and deeply relational. We work with the nervous system, with parts of the self shaped by survival and with the stories that live beneath symptoms. This is not surface work. It is practical work. The kind that helps you function, breathe, choose and live with more steadiness.

Sessions draw from evidence-based trauma therapy, somatic and attachment-focused approaches, parts-oriented work and integrative frameworks. We may work with memory, sensation, breath, language and meaning-making — always collaboratively, and always paced with respect for safety, consent, and integration.

This work is for those navigating trauma, anxiety, overwhelm, neurodivergence, recovery, grief, identity shifts or major life transitions - especially when life has been cracked open by loss, addiction, illness or long seasons of endurance. This work is for those who want depth without destabilization, support without being infantilized and healing that understands that sometimes laughter and humor sit right beside grief.

Here, we tend the fire carefully, so it warms, rather than consumes.

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  • Support for those navigating

    • Developmental and Attachment trauma

    • PTSD and C-PTSD

    • Relational Trauma

    • Medical Trauma

    • Nervous System Overwhelm and Shutdown

    • Long-term Survival states

    This work moves gently, with respect for the body’s pace and protective intelligence.

  • For those living through:

    • Death and Bereavement

    • Complicated or Ambiguous Grief

    • Identity Shifts

    • Relationship Loss

    • Major Life Transitions

    • The Quiet Grief of Becoming Someone New

    Grief is not rushed here. It is witnessed.

  • Support For:

    • Generalized Anxiety

    • Panic Disorder

    • Social Anxiety

    • Obsessive-Compulsive patterns

    • Trichotillomania and Excoriation

    • Chronic Hypervigilance & Overfunctioning

    We work not only with thoughts, but with the fear held in the body.

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  • Support for:

    • ADHD and Executive Functioning Struggles

    • Healing and Working with the ADHD Nervous System

    • Sensory Overwhelm and Burnout

    • Emotional Intensity and Regulation Challenges

    • Masking and Late Diagnosis

    • Navigating a World not built for your brain

    This work honors Difference rather than patholgizing it.

  • Support for:

    • Anorexia

    • Bulimia

    • Binge Eating Disorder

    • ARFID

    • Orthorexia

    • Chronic Body Shame and Control Patterns

    This work approaches Recovery with Compassion, Nuance and Deep Respect for the ways eating disorders often emerge as survival strategies.

  • Support For:

    • Substance Use and Recovery

    • Gambling

    • Compulsive or Self-Destructive Coping Patterns

    • Shame and Relapse

    • Rebuilding Identity after Addiction

    Recovery here is grounding in honesty, accountability, and nervous system awareness

  • Support for Individuals with:

    • POTS/hEDS/MCAS

    • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and othere neurological conditions

    • Autoimmune Conditions

    • Lyme/PANS/PANDAS

    • Chronic Pain and Fatigue Conditions

    • Post Concussive Syndrome

    • Many more…

    This work honors the grief, adaptation, identity shifts and exhaustion that often accompany living in a body that requires ongoing tending.

  • Identity, Relationships & the Self

    The complicated work of becoming human with other humans.

    Support for those navigating:

    • identity shifts and self-redefinition

    • relationship patterns and attachment wounds

    • boundaries, people-pleasing, and over-functioning

    • family dynamics and intergenerational patterns

    • intimacy, belonging, and fear of being “too much”

    • rebuilding trust in yourself after survival

    This work honors the reality that many people learned to survive by shapeshifting, caretaking, disappearing or adapting themselves to the needs of others.

    Together, we explore how to remain connected without abandoning the self in the process.

  • Making sense of the life you are living.

    Support for:

    • questions of purpose and direction

    • spiritual and existential concerns

    • meaning-making after loss or trauma

    • identity and life transitions

    • aging, mortality, and legacy

    • periods of uncertainty, awakening, or reinvention

    This work is not about having answers. It is about creating space for the deeper questions that emerge during seasons of change and becoming.

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Clinical Offerings

Therapy is available for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. Sessions are tailored to individual needs and may be offered in traditional weekly formats or through extended-session models for deeper therapeutic work.

Individual Therapy

Support for children, teens and adults navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, neurodivergence, eating disorders, addiction, life transitions and the complexities of being human.

Couples & Relationship Therapy

Support for couples and partners seeking deeper understanding, improved communication, repair and reconnection.

Family Therapy

Support for families navigating conflict, transitions, communication challenges, neurodivergence, recovery, caregiving and changing family dynamics.

Session Formats

  • 60-Minute Therapy Session

  • Extended Therapy Sessions (90–120 Minutes Available)

Extended sessions allow additional time for trauma processing, EMDR, complex decision-making, family work and deeper therapeutic exploration.

Intensives

For those seeking focused, immersive work, Anam Hearth offers extended therapeutic intensives designed to create space for meaningful progress and integration.

Trauma Intensives

A structured and personalized deep-dive experience utilizing trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches such as EMDR, parts work, somatic therapies, mindfulness and narrative processing.

Ideal for:

  • PTSD and complex trauma

  • grief and loss

  • significant life events

  • preparation for or integration after major transitions

Empowerment & Life Transition Intensives

Designed for individuals navigating crossroads, identity shifts, burnout, recovery, vocational changes, caregiving roles, chronic illness or periods of profound personal transformation.

These intensives combine therapeutic insight, practical planning, embodiment practices, values exploration and integration support to help clients move forward with greater clarity and self-trust.

Neurodivergent Living Intensives

A focused experience for individuals with ADHD and other neurodivergent ways of being who want support with executive functioning, emotional regulation, burnout recovery, identity integration, sustainable systems and building a life that works with their brain rather than against it.

For assistance in determining what service, or combination of services would be best for you, schedule free consult below.

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