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.

11/07/2025

Psychodrama's not new. It's not trendy. It is very, very cool, and it's been here for over a hundred years. It's also friends with sociometry and group psychotherapy - they are a team.

But what even are they?

Psychodrama is the drama of the psyche, just like psychology is the study of the psyche, and psychoanalysis is the analysis of the psyche.

As a psychodramatist, I help people take what's going on inside of them, bring it into the real world to renegotiate with their past experiences, reorganize traumatic memories, and re-integrate the new experiences- because your body remembers the good stuff too.

Sociometry looks at connection and choice. Group Psychotherapy allows for shared healing, connection with others, and the feeling you get when someone says "me, too."

Together, sociometry, psychodrama, and group psychotherapy create powerful experiences that research shows help with anxiety, depression, PTSD, CPTSD, traumatic or prolonged grief, substance use, and much more - in a way that feels more effective and efficient than traditional talk therapy.

Most of the people I work with feel like they've "tried everything" or have even been labeled "treatment resistant." If one approach worked for everyone and everything, we'd all have better mental health by now.

If you feel like you need something more, or something different, trauma-informed psychodrama and other embodied experiential, action, and expressive therapies might be an option, and my team at has built an entire outpatient mental health treatment center around them in downtown Salt Lake City.

We offer ongoing outpatient counseling for individuals, relationships of all types, and families plus immersive therapeutic experiences, a mental health and trauma-focused intensive outpatient program, and training and continuing education opportunities for professionals interested in adding this type of work to their practices.

Message me to chat, or head to heartenhouse.com to learn more.

09/14/2025

I had a great reminder today about the power of creating and connecting.

I spend most of my time facilitating and teaching creative things, but rarely get the chance to be in the participant role, so I'm super grateful to for her workshop at and the opportunity to be still.

We have a weekly art journaling group at on Tuesdays from 10 am-noon and I just feel so happy for everyone who gets to participate in it because they get to do this every week!

I'm not sure what this means for me yet, but I would love to hear how you connect with the image 🧡

09/09/2025

When it comes to therapy, an hour a week isn’t always enough.

If you’ve been doing the work in weekly therapy, but your symptoms are still interfering with your relationships, routines, or sense of self, it might be time to step into something more supportive.

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is coming to Salt Lake City October 6. This program is mental health and trauma-focused, creative, and community-rooted. With 9–18 hours of care per week, we're providing a deeper level of support without you having to step away from your real life.

You'll get:
🌿 More time to process, regulate, and reconnect
🌿 A blend of individual therapy, group work, and experiential healing
🌿 Modalities like yoga, psychodrama, outdoor adventure, movement, expressive arts, EMDR, Brainspotting, and more
🌿 All in a cozy, in-person space in downtown SLC

This is for you if you're looking to shift not just how you cope, but how you live.

Curious if this is a fit? Let's chat. Schedule a 20 minute conversation with a therapist at heartenhouse.com

08/22/2025

I'm so excited about offering this training in Florida next month!

What if your next training didn’t just talk about what you're learning, but actually invited you to experience it?

Join us Sept 26–28 in Sarasota, FL at for Co-Creating Lasting Change: a 3-day immersive training in trauma-informed psychodrama + experiential therapy, designed for clinicians ready to go deeper, get braver, and practice in full color.

Led by Aimee Hadfield, LCSW, CP, PAT
● Small group format (only 16 spots)
● 20 CE hours (NBCC + ABE)
● $495 ( students take $250 off with code STUDENT)
● Is cost a barrier? Reach out.

This isn’t another lecture series.
This is healing work, taught in the language of healing itself: action, embodiment, and connection.

08/21/2025

I don't love yoga.

I also don't hate it anymore, so that's neat.

A few weeks ago, I went to a yoga in the park gathering, but not really to do yoga. I went to see my friends and connect with people and with myself. I realized this is a good example of how roles interact. My "yoga doer" role is directly tied to my "friend" role and pretty much only comes out in support of friend time.

In psychodrama and sociometry, we use a tool called a role atom that allows us to get a clear view of the roles in our lives, our relationships with them, and the roles' relationships with each other.

Sometime, getting a clear picture of what's going on inside you is enough to start making little shifts. That's what's so cool about psychodrama: it lets you take what's twirling around in your head into the real world so you can get a different view, and interact with it in an embodied way.

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.

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