Aimee Hadfield - Reimagining Mental Health Care at Hearten House

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Aimee Hadfield - Reimagining Mental Health Care at Hearten House

Reimagining mental health care- Psychotherapist (LCSW UT, NM, & MT). Educator and mentor. Founder/Director of Hearten House. UAMFT approved clinical supervisor.

Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy.

08/15/2025

"We heal in community" is more than a catchy phrase. It's built into our lives and work.

Last week’s fire on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City left over 200 of our neighbors without work. In the wake of that loss, grief, worry, and uncertainty are showing up too.

As trauma-informed therapists and a fellow downtown business, Hearten House is offering six free individual therapy sessions to anyone who lost their job as a result of the fire. No insurance. No strings. Just real support, held with compassion.

If that’s you, here’s how to get started:
🧡 Stop by the Downtown SLC Employee Resource Fair on Tuesday, 8/19 to find out more about resources the Downtown Alliance has gathered
🧡 Reach out directly to us at team@heartenhouse.com or 801-410-0760

You don’t have to carry all of this alone.

07/19/2025

This training sold out both times it was offered last summer!

New to embodied experiential therapy methods? This is your invitation to jump in feet first with as your playground.

Join us for Co-Creating Lasting Change with Trauma-Informed Psychodrama & Experiential Therapy: a 3-day, hands-on training where you’ll learn by doing, not by watching a slide deck. Also? Comfy casual clothes are encouraged.

We’ll explore:
● A trauma-informed map for resourcing, trauma work, and integration
● Tools from psychodrama, movement, and creative arts
● How to lead deeper, more connected sessions—safely
● A renewed sense of purpose, presence, and play in your practice

This training is especially great if you’re newer to experiential methods and want practical tools that align with your trauma-informed values (and actually work in real-life sessions).

August 22-24 is the last time this Co-Creating Lasting Change with Trauma-Informed Psychodrama and Experiential Therapy 3-day Training will be offered in Salt Lake City (with one more in Sarasota, FL in September) because we are rolling out a new continuing education program for 2026.

We're close to selling out, so don’t wait: heartenhouse.com/training

20 CE hours available, approved for NBCC, Utah DOPL, and Psychodrama (ABE PAT) certification

07/13/2025

The joke among my friends is that I have some pretty cool outsiding supplies for a person who has a long history of being very afraid of danger in most forms, including uneven terrain and walking down hills.

The truth is that for a long time, being able to do adventure things has been a very much wished-for role. After I figured out why I was so afraid a few years ago (thanks, childhood roles and relational patterns), it was easier to try hard things. It was easier to work through the freeze responses. But they didn't stop happening, and they didn't get any shorter.

The thing about hanging out with other therapists and psychodramatists is that it's really hard for us to hide things from each other, since we are so attuned. So of course Tanner noticed and got curious.

And then in his brilliance, he suggested a climbing experience where I could have a new experience of the childhood scenario.

Then, I walked down the steep trail without freezing and only needed to ask for his hand one time. Was I slow? Yep. Was I embarrassed? Absolutely. Did I freeze or panic? Not even a little bit.

This is what I mean when I say I'm an experiential therapist because it's the thing that saved me.

This is what I mean when I say we're expanding Hearten House into an experiential based mental health treatment center because this work brings about real change in real time. Trauma walked up the side of that mountain, and healing walked down.

06/10/2025

What is Psychodrama?

Psychodrama is an experiential psychotherapy approach that utilizes role playing techniques and other action methods to address psychosocial issues. Rooted in spontaneity and creativity, each session is improvised and co-created between client and therapist. Psychodrama allows us to go beyond talking about an issue or healing, and instead to talk directly to the people or parts of self-related to the trauma or healing.

Psychodrama allows us to travel through time and talk to ourselves as a child to offer protection or nurturing – or travel into the future to strengthen a vision of ourselves related to our healing goals.

Continue Reading and Learning: https://www.phoenixtraumacenter.com/psychodrama/

06/01/2025

Psychodrama training in Kansas City!

I'm heading to KC in a couple of weeks to teach about using trauma-informed psychodrama and other experiential work with individuals at Modern Embodied Therapy. If you're a therapist, counselor, coach, educator, medical professional, business leader, these techniques can help you help people find their way and their truth.

June 20-22
16 CE hours included
$495 (reach out if finances are your only barrier to joining us)
heartenhouse.com/training

05/30/2025

We know I'm a psychodramatist, and that I devoted years, miles, and resources to learning it, but sometimes it's not clear what exactly it's all about, and why someone like me would make my life revolve around it.

I sat down with Dr. John Sanders of Voyage Clinics to talk about how psychodrama works, why it’s such a powerful tool for healing, and what drew me to this work in the first place.
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Whether you're a therapist, a seeker, or someone who's had a tough road—this conversation is for you.
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🎧 Watch the full interview at the link in the first comment below!

05/26/2025

This week I'm facilitating a weekend group with Nathan Gaydosik (there are still spots available!), and there's movement, art, support, and growth in the days between now and then.

Group work can, and should, be very different from the worksheets you might have experienced if you've been to treatment, or the dumping and feedback circles you might have seen on TV.

A lot of people don't know this, but group therapy is a specialization. That means that it requires training and practice - It's not individual therapy with an audience, it's a nuanced process that includes creating connection and safety among and between the group members, including the facilitator.

Let us show you what group can be like.

heartenhouse.com/grouptherapy

All of our offerings for group therapy are in-person in downtown Salt Lake City, unless labeled as being online.

05/23/2025

We know there are a TON of professionals in Utah who have some training and experience in psychodrama and other experiential therapy methods, but may not utilize what they've learned because they either don't have the opportunity, feel like they need more practice, or just aren't sure how to apply these techniques in a trauma-informed way.

That's why Tanner and Aimee are bringing you a weekly peer practice group.

This group is for professionals with previous training and experience in psychodrama. It's not training (although you'll learn some things) and it's not a therapy group (but of course practice comes with the opportunity to do your own personal growth work), and it doesn't cost anything.

Because of the nature of this group, we are asking that you reach out via DM or email team@heartenhouse.com if you're interested, and we'll get you signed up!

This is a space to learn, grow, and connect as humans and as professionals and we're excited to be able to bring people together to practice and learn together.

This group is organized by Tanner Matheny, CSW, with support from Aimee Hadfield, LCSW, CP, PAT. Together, they have over 2,000 hours of training across multiple experiential therapy methods including psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy, outdoor and adventure therapies, art-based interventions, sandtray, and more.

05/22/2025

You’ve done all the “right” things.

The degree.
The job.
The growth mindset.
Even the meditation app.

And still, something’s missing.
Maybe it’s clarity. Maybe it’s energy. Maybe it’s you.

Dreaming and Doing: A Life Planning Workshop
May 31 – June 1 in Salt Lake City
is your invitation to *pause, reset, and reimagine what comes next.

We created this weekend for the quiet moments between chapters.
The ones where you’re craving more — not in a hustle way, but in a coming home to yourself kind of way.

Join us for a life-first, burnout-aware, deeply human experience designed to help you:

•Reconnect with your inner compass
•Clarify what really matters
•Build a life that actually fits

Led by Nathan Gaydosik, CMHCi and Aimee Hadfield, LCSW, CP, PAT
Hosted at Hearten House, Salt Lake City’s experiential therapy center

Spots are limited.
Learn more + sign up at heartenhouse.com/lifeplanningworkshops25

Because doing life differently starts with dreaming differently.

05/11/2025

I'm so excited!

I get asked SO often about doing trauma-informed psychodrama and experiential therapy with individuals - I think that because so much of our training happens in a group format that even though we talk about was to use these methods with individuals, and do a lot of practice in groups of two or three, there are things that get missed and workshopping and practicing ideas is a must.

Practice builds confidence, and confidence means this isn't another training you'll attend and then not put to immediate use in your practice.

In this training, we will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, assessment and treatment planning in action, basic psychodrama theory and techniques, how to combine the techniques with the theories and interventions you're already using, resourcing and integration, and more.

June 20-22
The MET KC in downtown Kansas City, MO
$495 (student discounts available)
16 CE credits
Info & registration at heartenhouse.com/training

05/09/2025

"Maybe the thing that held me back the most was this feeling that I had to do something the way I thought other people believed was correct, rather than the way everything in me knew to be right."

I wrote this in February or March of 2024, and it's been sitting in my instagram planner app since then. It felt like it wanted to be posted today. Maybe it's for you?

05/02/2025

Four years ago this month, I serendipitously ended up at a psychodrama training at and my whole world suddenly started to make sense, and shifts rapidly.

Today we're starting a three-day training about trauma-informed psychodrama and experiential therapy at and it feels a little surreal to be putting into action a goal I made back then - to help make psychodrama training more accessible to people in my local community as a way to spread and share this method that I believe to be one of the most powerful ways to treat trauma, and heal society.

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314 W Broadway #222
Salt Lake City, UT
84101

Website

http://aimeehadfield.com/

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