Meet Suma Hodge of The Licensed Connections in West Valley Based

Today we’d like to introduce you to Suma Hodge.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Suma. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I love Law and Order SVU. Dr. Wong changed my world during my sophomore year. Secretly, I love crime and I love mental health what’s better than both. There is a need for support in mental health and reminiscing the stigma that surrounds it. It’s difficult to be able to understand the day to day and it’s effects on what’s mental capacity. Today, I am less than ten go your away from my independent license. I am a mental health advocate, speaker, and supporter. I consulted with companies looking at how to make their companies compliant with the ADHS, client’s and loved one’s expectations, I am a clinical manager that provides support and recovery opportunities to clients with a criminal and substance use shackle.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
The road has been tough. As a new mom of a one-month-old, I knew I needed a better way of life for her. I went back to school for my masters and working. All full time while breastfeeding. I knew that she deserved better and I was going to give it to her by any means. It was tough. Late nights for both of us and school and then work. Then fast forward to working a full time and full-time internship with a two-year-old. Then packing up a three-year-old to move across the country to pursue a bigger dream. To be licensed and my own business of helping the community on a macro scale. To be a supervisor.

And so we did. I’m a manager. I am growing the future and soon will be able to license them too. My daughter is my partner in crime. She trusts me. That I will always take care of her (even when I don’t know if I can). Coming from a single-parent home with a mother, who put three kids through college on her own, I had no choice. Tired nights paid off and I’m am on a path of infinite possibilities.

Please tell us more about your work
I am a behavior consultant to all ADHS qualified and start-up behavioral companies. I provide the therapeutic expectations and levels of a sufficient company. I provide audit readiness and compliance proficiency. Ensure that care being provided is safe, individualized and trauma-informed care treatment.

All while providing a safe space for a mother to vent and let go. I provide mothers with strategic mental health coping skills to be successful with motherhood’s challenges. To know that no matter your motherhood road, that you are not alone and will have strong support and involved village to know that what you are experiencing, thinking and feeling are all normal.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I will be independently licensed in a few weeks. I will be able to create and develop counseling skills in eager individuals state that will have an impactful change in the mental health system of Phoenix.

Pricing:

• Mommies and Mimosas $20-$25 tickets
• Consultation varies based on needs base is $125 per hour.
• Supervision $30 per hour/weekly

Contact Info:

• Website: Thelicensedconnections.com
• Phone: 602-503-2899
• Email: suma@thelicensedconnections.com
• Instagram: The licensed mom
• Facebook: The Licensed Connections, LLC

 

 

Image Credit:
Grace A.
Anneke M.

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