Michele Hodges

Michele works with individuals and with intimate partners. With a warm, accepting and curious style, she has helped clients with challenges like depression, anxiety, stress, difficult 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 in the evidence-based Gottman Method for couples therapy, and uses methods to affirm and support neurodivergent partners navigating their cognitive differences.

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

An Atlanta native, Michele is the mother of two grown children and enjoys entertaining, decorating, dancing, disco balls and boating with friends.