Therapy and Treatment Options
Hearten House, Downtown Salt Lake City
Maybe you've been in therapy for years and something is still stuck. Maybe you've never tried it and you're not sure where to begin. Maybe you know you need more than one hour a week but aren't sure what that looks like or whether you can access it.
Whatever brought you here, there's probably something on this page for you. Hearten House offers multiple levels and formats of care, from weekly therapy to intensive programs to multi-day experiences in places far from the office. What runs through all of it is the same: an experiential, embodied, trauma-informed approach that works with your whole self, not just your capacity to articulate what's wrong.
If you're not sure where to start, a free consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. We'll help you figure out the right fit.
The same approach, at every level of care. What changes is the container.
Who we helpWe help people navigating:
Trauma and PTSD, complex and developmental trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and the effects of relational and attachment wounds. Depression, anxiety, panic, OCD, bipolar disorder, and mood disorders. Grief and loss. Life transitions, identity, and questions of meaning and purpose. Relational difficulties, communication breakdowns, and the hard work of repair. Family conflict, parenting challenges, and the dynamics that form across generations. LGBTQ+ experiences and identity. Chronic pain and the intersection of physical and emotional experience. Self-harm and suicidal ideation, in collaboration with appropriate levels of care.
We work with adults and children ages 11 and up. We offer individual, couples, family, and group formats. We do not specialize in substance use as a primary focus, though we treat co-occurring mental health presentations.
Individual, Couples, and Family Therapy
You've probably tried talking about it. Maybe for years. You understand your patterns. You can trace the shape of what happened and why it affected you. And some part of it is still stuck. That's exactly the kind of stuck we work with. Therapy at Hearten House is weekly or biweekly work with a licensed clinician or an advanced graduate-level student intern who is trained in experiential and trauma-informed methods. It's individual, couples, or family therapy, depending on what you need. And it doesn't only stay in conversation. The work engages your nervous system, your body, and your relationships, not just your capacity to articulate what's wrong. You're not seeing a generalist. You're working with clinicians who have trained specifically in methods designed to reach what talk therapy alone sometimes can't.
Ongoing outpatient care
Group Psychotherapy and Community Groups
There's something that can happen in a group that can't happen anywhere else. The moment when someone says exactly what you've never been able to say. The discovery that the thing you thought was most private about you is the thing everyone recognizes. That moment doesn't happen in individual therapy. It happens here. Group psychotherapy at Hearten House is a clinical modality in its own right, with its own structure, contract, and therapeutic goals. Our groups are experiential and action-based. They're not sitting in a circle taking turns talking about your week.
We also offer community groups, which are open, therapeutic in spirit, and require no clinical contract. Both have a place, and we’re here to meet you where you need to be met.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Some people arrive at IOP after years of weekly therapy that moved things but not enough. Some arrive in crisis, needing more structure and support than an hour a week can hold. Some arrive knowing, without being able to fully explain it, that they need to be somewhere that takes this as seriously as they do. Hearten House’s mental health and trauma-focused IOP is for adults who need more time in the work each week without requiring inpatient or residential care. It's mental health and trauma primary. No substance use diagnosis required. It's the only fully experiential-based IOP program in the region, meaning every group is action-based and embodied, not just talk-based psychoeducation.
IOP runs 3 to 5 days per week, 9 to 18 hours per week. New participants begin on Mondays. We accept most major insurance plans, including Medicaid.
Higher Level of Care
Therapy Intensives
Sometimes the pace of weekly therapy isn't the problem. The problem is that an hour ends just as something real begins to open. You leave with the thread in your hand but no time to follow it. And then a week passes and you have to find it again. A therapy intensive gives you more than an hour. A full day, or several consecutive days, of focused work with a licensed clinician.
The depth and continuity that allows for breakthroughs that weekly sessions sometimes can't reach. Not a retreat. Not a vacation. Therapy, held for long enough to actually get somewhere. Intensives are available for individuals, couples, and families, and are scheduled individually. Reach out to talk through what a format that works for your situation might look like.
Concentrated Care
Multi-Day Immersive Group Experiences
Some work needs a different container. Not an office, not a weekly hour, but days. A specific place. A group of people moving through something together with time and space to let it land. Hearten House offers two multi-day immersive group experiences. The Southern Utah Immersive takes participants into the red rock desert for four days of clinical group work, outdoor time, and camping in one of the most ancient landscapes in North America. You Are The Lantern is a five-day professional immersive experience in Santa Fe, designed specifically for behavioral health professionals who need time to do their own work.
Both are facilitated by Hearten House clinicians. Both use experiential and psychodrama-informed methods within a trauma-informed clinical frame. Both tend to produce shifts that people describe, years later, as some of the most significant of their lives.
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Professional Training and Continuing Education
The people who do this work need space to go deeper in it. Not just continuing education credits, though those matter too, but real training in methods that will change how you practice. Hearten House is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider. We offer psychodrama training, professional workshops, and CE opportunities for clinicians at every stage of their career. If you're curious about experiential methods, wanting to deepen your practice, or looking for training that takes the work as seriously as you do, we have something for you.
Not sure where to start?
A free consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. We'll help you understand what kind of support makes sense for where you are, whether Hearten House is the right fit, and which level of care to begin with.
You can also reach our admissions team directly at admissions@heartenhouse.com or by calling (801) 210-9220.
your frequently asked questions about hearten house, answered
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Hearten House offers individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, group psychotherapy, community groups, an Intensive Outpatient Program, therapy intensives, and multi-day immersive group experiences. All services use an experiential, embodied, trauma-informed clinical model.
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Individual, couples, and family therapy typically involves weekly or biweekly sessions with a licensed clinician. An Intensive Outpatient Program provides a much higher level of structure and support, with 3 to 5 days per week of programming, 9 to 18 hours per week. IOP is appropriate when weekly therapy isn't providing enough support, or when someone needs more structure to stabilize and make progress.
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A therapy intensive is concentrated therapy that takes place in or near the office, typically over one or several consecutive days. An immersive group experience is a multi-day, location-based group experience that takes participants out of their daily lives. Intensives are individual or couples focused. Immersive experiences are group experiences that happen in a specific location.
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Yes. Hearten House offers couples therapy as part of ongoing outpatient care. Couples therapy at Hearten House uses experiential and embodied methods alongside relational approaches, attending to communication, repair, attachment, and the patterns that keep couples stuck.
We have therapists who are trained in Gottman Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples counseling.
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Yes. Family therapy at Hearten House attends to the dynamics, patterns, and relationships that shape how a family functions. It is appropriate for families navigating conflict, significant transitions, communication breakdowns, or the effects of trauma on family relationships.
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Hearten House helps people navigating trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, relational difficulties, life transitions, adverse childhood experiences, mood disorders, OCD, self-harm, suicidal ideation, LGBTQ+ experiences, and family and couples concerns. We are mental health and trauma primary and do not specialize in substance use as a primary focus.
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Yes. Hearten House accepts most major insurance plans, including Medicaid. We verify benefits before any commitment is made and walk people through their financial responsibility clearly upfront. Call our admissions team or email admissions@heartenhouse.com to verify your specific plan.
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The easiest way to start is to book a free consultation at pro.heartensecure.com/signup. A free consultation is a conversation, not a commitment. You can also call our admissions team at (801) 210-9220 or email admissions@heartenhouse.com. We respond within one business day.