Hearth received her master's degree in clinical social work from Arizona State University in 1999. She has a well rounded background as a psychotherapist. She has worked in outpatient behavioral health, residential substance abuse with adults and children, children's residential treatment and inpatient geriatric psychiatry. She has experience treating depression, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders and addictions (alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex, spending). Hearth is a cognitive-behavioral therapist and is also trained in EMDR.