Meet The Women Behind Come Home
Come Home Therapy & Healing was founded by Nicole O’Brien, Ph.D., LMFT, and Heather Waxman, LMFT—partners in love, life, and business—who share a deep commitment to helping women heal, evolve, and come home to themselves.
Together, they bring a rare combination of depth, clinical expertise, and lived, embodied experience—offering a holistic, integrative approach to therapy that supports real, lasting change. While their work is distinct, each with her own area of specialization, it is intentionally complementary—allowing every woman to receive care that feels deeply personal and thoughtfully aligned to her needs.
At the heart of Come Home is the relationship between Nicole and Heather—a healing, grounded, and joyful love that infuses the space with warmth, trust, and possibility.
This is not just work we offer—it’s work we live, practice, and embody every day.
Nicole O’Brien, Ph.D., LMFT
Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development | Certified Ericksonian Hypnosis Practitioner
Specialities: Midlife Transitions, Perimenopause and Menopause, Subconscious Repatterning
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Nicole supports high-functioning, driven women navigating midlife transitions, perimenopause, and menopause—helping them shed outdated patterns and step into their next level of growth and expansion.
With over 15 years of experience as a healthcare executive, clinician, and former collegiate athlete, Nicole brings a powerful blend of depth, strategy, and lived leadership into her work.
She works with women who are feeling called to self-reflect on who they’ve been and who they’re becoming, shed roles, patterns, and identities that no longer serve them, and gain clarity on how they want to enter the next chapter of their lives.
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Nicole’s work is deeply informed by her own experience of midlife and perimenopause—an unexpected season that reshaped how she understood herself, her body, and her life. In her early 40s, she began experiencing a range of physical and emotional shifts without initially realizing what was happening, while also feeling called toward deeper alignment and truth in her life.
Through this period of transition, Nicole came to understand midlife as a deep recalibration and initiation into one’s power and wisdom. It is a time when the roles, patterns, and identities that once worked begin to fall away, making space for something more honest, aligned, and fully expressed. Her work now supports women navigating this threshold—helping them make sense of what’s happening in their bodies, process the internal and relational shifts, and move through this chapter with clarity, self-trust, and embodied self-leadership.
Heather Waxman, LMFT
Certified Somatic Exercises Instructor | Certified EFT Practitioner
Specialties: Somatic Therapy, Trauma Healing, Depth Work & Unconscious Pattern Healing, Soul-centered Psychotherapy
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Heather supports introspective, self-aware women who are ready for deeper work beyond traditional talk therapy — helping them heal chronic patterns at the root through an integrative approach that blends somatic therapy, depth & unconscious pattern healing, spirituality, feminist psychology, and relational work.
With over 13 years of experience, her approach is grounded in the understanding that we are spiirtual and cyclical beings—shaped by rhythms of growth, rest, and renewal—and that symptoms carry wisdom, intelligence, and information that can help guide one’s healing process.
Therapy with Heather is integrative and holistic, meaning it supports your entire system—your soul, conscious and subconscious minds, nervous system, psyche, and relationships—so that real, lasting change can happen. Over time, clients develop a deeper sense of inner safety, self-trust, and embodied resilience.
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Heather’s work is rooted in a deep devotion to her own healing. She grew up in a complex family system shaped by grief, addiction, and emotional volatility—experiences that led her to become deeply attuned, self-aware, and committed to understanding patterns at their root. Through her own healing journey—including navigating narcissistic family dynamics, eating disorders, and long-term emotional trauma—she discovered that insight alone wasn’t enough; lasting change required working with the nervous system, subconscious mind, and the soul. What she offers now is the integration of that work: a grounded, somatic, and spiritually-informed approach that supports women in moving out of survival patterns and into a deeper sense of self-trust. She is both an exceptional therapist and a woman deeply committed to her own ongoing process of transformation.