Hearten House

04/29/2026

UPDATE: This training has sold out. We didn't expect that, and we are honored and grateful! There is a waitlist forming, and you can join it at the registration link. We are actively considering the feasibility of expanding capacity and/or presenting it again in the fall.

You've probably been in the middle of a session, supervision, a team meeting, or a family event when something happens that touches a part of you, and you react. Even though you know what it is, where it came from, and might even have a name for it, none of those things slowed it down. And naming it after the fact doesn't change what happened.

That's the gap this training lives in.

Bring It to Life is a four-day training intensive co-facilitated by Aimee Hadfield with Haydn Briggs from the Philadelphia Area Psychodrama Institute this June in Salt Lake City. It brings IFS and psychodrama together as one integrated practice, with leadership as the through-line.

Psychodrama gives your parts a body, a voice that doesn't have to be translated, and a room where they can meet the roles they were formed in response to. Because your avoidant part didn't develop in isolation. It developed in response to something, someone, or a system that needed something from you that you learned to provide, at a cost you're still paying. It preceded parts work, and it does something language alone can't: it puts those roles in relationship with each other, in action, in real time.

If you've been using parts language in your work and keep bumping up against the edges of what naming alone can do, this is what comes next.

June 4–7, 2026 in Salt Lake City, with 21 CE and psychodrama training hours included. Early registration discount closes May 10.

All of the details and registration info are at heartenhouse.com/bring-it-to-life

And as always, if cost is the only thing in the way, reach out before you talk yourself out of it.

03/26/2026

We've just doubled in size, moved to a new location, and have room for an intern or two as we continue to expand. If you or someone you know is looking, this page gives a solid overview, and we are holding interviews next week: https://heartenhouse.com/internship-practicum

03/17/2026

Healing shouldn’t be out of reach. Our low-cost therapy sessions ($10–$60) are led by highly trained, closely supervised interns who bring compassion, curiosity, and an experiential, mind-body approach to your care. This is space to slow down, regulate, and reconnect with yourself at a pace you choose.

Book a free consultation at heartenhouse.com.

03/16/2026

03/15/2026

This weekend, we finished moving to our new home. After six years on West Broadway, there were a lot of feels, including watching Jeff take down the sign.

I'm Aimee Hadfield, and I started Hearten House with SO much support from my amazing husband in the spring of 2020 which was a wild time to sign a lease on a giant loft in downtown Salt Lake City with the goal of bringing people together to heal, as the world shut down.

We called ourselves a hub for healing and built a co-working model that incubated small therapy, movement, nutrition, physical therapy, coaching, and wellness practices. Most of those launched into thriving practices of their own, and we're proud of the relationships we built in those early years.

When I found psychodrama and other embodied experiential, action, and expressive therapies, the direction of Hearten House started to clarify. I continued training, became a board certified psychodramatist, started offering psychodrama training, and somewhere in there someone asked to intern with me while getting their MSW. We got creative and it worked out great, so we kept growing.

Last year we made the leap to a fully experiential outpatient mental health treatment center with a trauma-focused Intensive Outpatient Program — and quickly realized we had outgrown our space. As much as we loved our neighborhood, a move was necessary to offer the kind of care we want to offer at the scale we want to offer it.

In November we found our new home on the third floor of the Oquirrh School at 350 S 400 E, and just like when we found our original location, it felt absolutely right. On March 1 we started moving, four days shy of the six year anniversary of finding our first spot.

The ride has included hard lessons, real growth, and hundreds of lives changed. We are so grateful for this community in Salt Lake City and around the country.

We never got a grand opening party. We signed our lease, the world shut down, and we just sort of happened, and kept happening. This time, we will celebrate all together, for real.

03/14/2026

A thing we hear a lot when people see "Southern Utah Outdoor Therapy Intensive":
"I'm not really an outdoorsy person."

Noted! Neither is everyone coming.
But here's what this actually is: you'll hike, you'll tent camp, and you'll need to pack for it. We'll send a full gear list so there's no guessing.

What you don't need is a ton of experience.

Beginner-friendly trails. Basic camping. And a small group of people doing real therapeutic work together in one of the most quietly stunning places in the country.

The desert does something. The distance from your regular life does something. Waking up outside and then sitting in a circle with skilled clinicians holding the container, and that combination does something that a weekly therapy hour, however good, usually can't.

You just need to be willing to show up and be outside for a few days.

April 24–27 | Southern Utah | $1,500 (meals included) LGBTQ+ and BIPOC affirming | 18+

Message us directly if you have questions, or find all of the details and the registration form ⬇️

03/13/2026

You've probably gotten pretty good at making yourself fit.

The chair that's available. The corner that's out of the way. The posture that says "I'm fine, I don't need much."

This room asks something different of you.
It's nearly 800 square feet of light and windows and actual choice — the sofa, the chairs, a spot on the floor if that's what your body wants today. Nobody assigned you a seat. Nobody needs you to be comfortable in a particular way.

Sometimes the most therapeutic thing a room can do is give you enough space to figure out how you actually want to occupy it.

We're settling into our new home at 350 S 400 E in Salt Lake City. Come see what it feels like.

03/13/2026

You never know when you're going to need a box of tiny ducks.

We didn't, until we did. And then suddenly it was exactly right. The material became the metaphor, and the room understood something that would have taken a lot longer to explain with words alone.

That's experiential therapy. The right object at the right moment can open something up in a way that talking around it rarely does.

All of this is heading to our new location at 350 S 400 E this week. Take a closer look at the labels and see what catches your eye.

03/12/2026

The life you built still works.

The job. The relationships. The reputation.

You're still showing up.
Still doing it well.
Still the person people call when things get hard.

But somewhere underneath all of that, something quiet has shifted.

It doesn't feel like yours in the same way it used to.

That's not burnout exactly.
It's not a crisis.

It's something smaller and more persistent,
like you've been running on professional instinct
and lost track of what was underneath it.

You Are The Lantern is a 5-day immersive in Santa Fe, New Mexico for behavioral health professionals. April 30–May 4.

Not a conference. Not a retreat in the spa-weekend sense.

Deep experiential work, facilitated by people who know this field from the inside, designed for people who know how the work we do works, and need space to actually be in it.

The link to begin the registration process is in the comments ⬇️

03/11/2026

Leaning against the wall, trying to figure out where you belong?

You're not alone.

Our new location at 350 S 400 E is about twice the size of our first building, and yes, it's a bit of a process unpacking. But as one of our participants pointed out: "It's therapy. It's going to take a while to unpack."

We believe pretty firmly that the space is part of the work. It's not just decorative, it's clinical. The environment signals something before a single word gets spoken, so we're thoughtful and particular about what goes on the walls.

Same intention, same care, more room to get to know yourself and heal in community.