Michele Hodges works with individuals and intimate partners. With a warm, accepting, and curious style, she has helped clients with challenges like depression, anxiety, stress, traumatic childhood events, self-doubt, and narcissistic abuse. In her approach, Michele helps clients to understand the relationship between themselves and their situation—personal, societal, and cultural—in order to create healing, self-compassion, and personal growth.

Michele uses Emotion Focused Therapy to work with intimate partners. This evidence-based method strives to improve partners’ communication and to diffuse negative patterns that get in the way of connection. Attending to partners’ attachment needs, she helps them to develop empathy and acceptance and to deepen their commitment to the relationship. She has also studied the evidence-based Gottman Method for couples therapy, and methods to support couples dealing with substance abuse.

Michele brings a straightforward, but sensitive approach to sex therapy, dealing with concerns like sexual function/pain, desire discrepancies, sexual trauma, and feelings of self- doubt. She is affirming of LGBTQIA+ individuals and alternative interests like non-monogamy and kink. Michele’s goal is to create a safe and accepting space for her clients to examine their sexual selves, release shame, process past events, and achieve greater satisfaction.

Michele’s Masters of Family Therapy is from the Mercer University School of Medicine and she receives professional supervision under Dr. Erika Pluhar, PhD, EdS, LMFT, LPC, CST-S and Dayle Doreen Hosack, MA, LMFT.