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Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression can show up in many different ways, whether feeling buzzing and restless, frozen and stuck, or agitated and angry. And, it can present at many different points of life in response to transitions, challenges, hardships, relationships, and grief.

The weight of the fear and shame, and despair and grief, that underpin the moods disrupt daily living and make the weight of life’s demands that much heavier.

At Root & Rise, individual therapy for anxiety and depression extends beyond coping skills and targets the fear and shame that create internal conflicts to improve regulation and provide relief. 

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Codependency

Codependency is a style of relating in which a person restricts or rejects their own needs in an effort to sustain a relationship with another. This style of relating forms early on in development in relationships with unclear boundaries and expectations and complicated dynamics. These patterns of self-sacrifice become deeply exhausting when they extend into adulthood and create imbalances, as the affected person may feel responsible for others’ emotional states even at the cost of oneself.

At Root & Rise, therapy explores guilt and shame; processes narratives that create expectations of oneself and others; renegotiates an internal sense of responsibility (i.e. agency); and reconnects individuals to their sense of self to connect with the parts of themselves that have been disavowed. 

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Grief, Loss, and Separation

Grief, loss, and separation have profound impacts on the maps of our internal world. When we lose someone, we lose not only their physical presence and connection with them, but also the parts of ourselves that we shared with them, the versions of ourselves that we were with them, and the opportunity to continue to grow with them. In the early stages of loss, the internal presence of the person often feels heavy, demanding, or even haunting because our minds work to hold them still in time, exactly as they were, even as life progresses.

Carrying the weight of loss and working to close the mental gaps of distance and time are exhausting and can have significant impacts on other parts of life. Rather than striving to “move on,” therapy at Root & Rise encourages individuals to connect with their memories to strengthen the bonds with both whom and/or what they have lost and with the version of themselves they grew to be in that relationship. Here, therapy explores how past losses shape current pain and distress, to transform absences and voids into meaningful, integrated memories.

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Relationships

While we are biologically wired for attachment, long-lasting connections can be more challenging to maintain. Throughout our lives, we develop implicit contracts of what we expect in relationships. We may feel frustrated, angry, resentful, and disappointed when others fall short of expectations and needs go unmet, which can lead to conflicts and/or distance even in the closest relationships.

Whether encountering challenges in relationships with family, friends, or romantic partners, therapy at Root & Rise builds awareness around individual’s needs. With this insight, individuals are empowered to meet their own needs where they can and communicate their relational needs to invite deeper emotional intimacy, and thus connection, with the other. 

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Substance Use Recovery

Substance use issues often emerge as a deeply personal, albeit painful, attempt to manage overwhelming emotions or seek relief from unresolved internal conflicts. In a compassionate therapeutic space, we view these behaviors not as moral failings, but as adaptive responses to distress that deserve understanding rather than judgment.

With compassion and curiosity, therapy at Root & Rise for mild to moderate substance use move beyond symptom management to explore underlying motivations for use and the relationship the person has developed with the substance. By understanding what the substance is soothing and shielding, we can understand what needs have gone unmet and what nourishment and care the person really needs. From here, we begin to foster a safe reconnection with oneself. Breaking old patterns of numbing their feelings or running from them, individuals learn to come face-to-face with their needs and to fulfill them for long-term healing.

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Women’s Health and Fertility

Providing culturally responsive, holistic, and trauma-informed therapy for adults to help you break free from the past, cultivate resilience, and live life as your authentic self.

✗ Struggling with the weight of trauma in daily life
✗ Stuck in a cycle of overwhelming emotions
✗ Battling thoughts of not being good enough
✗ Suffering from physical symptoms
✗ Disconnected from yourself and others
✗ Navigating uncertainty in life transitions