Specialized Therapy Services

Heart Therapy offers more than a place to talk; it helps clients understand why they feel stuck and provide a clear path toward meaningful change. Heart of Magdalene Therapy PLLC offers evidence-based Telehealth psychotherapy throughout Michigan for people navigating OCD, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life transitions. Care is thoughtful, direct, and grounded in each client’s lived experience, with treatment designed to strengthen agency, increase flexibility, and support a fuller life.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

OCD can make a thought feel like evidence and uncertainty feel like an emergency. Treatment looks beyond the content of each obsession to the cycle that keeps it powerful: intrusive thoughts, distress, compulsions, reassurance seeking, checking, avoidance, rumination, and mental rituals that others may never see. Exposure and response prevention (ERP) provides structured opportunities to approach feared thoughts, sensations, and situations while reducing the responses that temporarily relieve anxiety but strengthen OCD over time. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) supports this work by helping clients relate differently to thoughts, make room for discomfort, and choose actions based on their values rather than fear. Exposures are collaborative, purposeful, and individualized—not designed to overwhelm or force disclosure..

Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression can narrow a person’s life quietly: decisions become harder, relationships require more energy, and considerable time may be spent anticipating problems, replaying interactions, withdrawing, or pushing through exhaustion. Therapy identifies the specific patterns of thought, emotion, behavior, and connection that keep distress in motion. Drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), motivational interviewing, and emotion-regulation work, treatment helps clients respond to worry, self-criticism, low motivation, and overwhelm with greater flexibility and intention. The goal is not forced positivity or the absence of difficult emotions; it is a stronger capacity to function effectively, remain connected to what matters, and create changes that hold beyond the therapy session.

Grief, Trauma, and Life Transitions

Grief and trauma can alter a person’s sense of safety, identity, trust, and connection. Some experiences arise from a single event; others develop through loss, betrayal, abuse, chronic invalidation, or painful relationship patterns. Treatment is paced with care and does not require clients to revisit experiences before they are ready. Trauma-informed and attachment-aware therapy helps clients understand survival responses, strengthen emotional regulation, establish healthier boundaries, and integrate what happened without allowing it to determine what comes next. Loss, divorce, caregiving demands, relationship changes, and other major transitions are approached as experiences to navigate with clarity and agency—not problems to rush through. Healing does not require minimizing the past; it means expanding the life available beyond it.