
At Root to Rise Counseling and Wellness, we are deeply committed to your well-being and approach each client with genuine curiosity, care, and compassion.
Being human is complicated and comes with its own unique challenges and stressors. Our team creates a supportive space to explore these complexities at your own pace. We center what’s important to you throughout the counseling experience, creating a personalized process that acknowledges your voice, your comfort, your limits, and your feelings.
While we may focus on specific goals in our work together, our deeper intention is to support you in developing a steady connection to your own truth. Rooted in your truth, you can rise with resilience and move through challenges with self-confidence and self-trust.
Learn more about the the Root to Rise clinical team and how can support adults, families, and teens.
AREAS OF SUPPORT
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma, CPTSD, & PTSD
- Stress Management
- Coping
- Grief & loss
- Substance use
- Process addictions
- Recovery
- Life transitions & adjustments
- Parenting
COUNSELING APPROACHES
Somatic/Body-Based
Trauma Informed Yoga: This practice develops and strengthens the mind-body connection, helping the individual prioritize what their bodies and minds are communicating to them. The dance of listening and responding holds tremendous therapeutic value that extends beyond the yoga mat.
Substance Use and Addiction Counseling
Psychotherapy for substance use is focuses on understanding the deeper “why” behind behaviors, processing past experiences, and building healthier coping skills. It is especially helpful when substance use overlaps with anxiety, depression, trauma, or family stress. This approach allows individuals to gain insight, strengthen resilience, improve communication, and support long-term healing.
Licensed Chemical Dependency Counseling (LCDC) services are best suited when substance use or chemical dependency is the primary concern. This approach is structured, practical, and recovery-focused, emphasizing skill-building such as relapse prevention, coping strategies, motivation, and harm reduction. Services support adults, teens, and families by providing clear guidance, concrete tools, and goal-oriented recovery planning—helping individuals and loved ones build stability, strengthen boundaries, and support sustainable recovery.
Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a trauma-focused, evidence-based therapy that helps individuals understand and change the unhelpful beliefs trauma can create, such as guilt, shame, or self-blame. It focuses on how trauma impacts thoughts and emotions. CPT is structured and collaborative and aimed at helping clients reduce trauma-related symptoms to move forward with greater clarity and resilience.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) focuses on the beliefs that shape emotional distress and behavior. It helps identify and challenge self-defeating, rigid thoughts that contribute to anxiety, depression, anger, shame, and other emotional disturbances.
Relational-Cultural Therapy
Relational-Cultural Therapy focuses on how past and present relationships impact one’s emotional well-being, identity, and patterns of connection. It acknowledges the importance of safe, authentic relationships in growth and healing and recognizes that growth happens in connection and with others rather than in isolation.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps individuals understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and developing practical skills to create healthier ways of thinking and coping. It is collaborative, goal-oriented, and effective for concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions.
Person Centered
The person-centered and humanistic therapeutic approach places the individual and their experiences at the center of the healing process. This views clients as the experts of their own lives, encourages alignment with their personal values, and invites in their natural, inherent ability for growth and change.
Mindfulness Based Self-Compassion
The mindfulness based self-compassion approach to therapy integrates mindfulness and self-compassion exercises to reduce self-criticism, shame, and emotional dysregulation.
Affirmative Therapy
Affirmative therapy is a compassionate, strengths-based approach that honors and accepts one’s identity without seeing it as something that needs to be questioned or changed. It recognizes the impact that stigma, discrimination, social conditioning, and societal stressors has on one’s emotional and mental well-being.
FAQs
Counseling approach
Person-centered, strengths-based, attachment aware, and trauma-informed. Culturally sensitive, anti-racist, and LGBTQ+ friendly.
Process and insight-driven, while remaining practical and actionable. Sessions are conversational and educational in nature, creating space for reflection, understanding, and growth.
Investment
Private pay with insurance support in the form of superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. Payment options available. This gives the client the freedom to let their healing journey unfold at it’s own pace, without the restrictions often required by insurance companies.
Care philosophy
You deserve to feel seen, heard, and respected. We honor your lived experiences and approach our work together as a collaborative, insight-driven process—one that fosters deeper understanding and meaningful, sustainable change.
How do I get started?
Call/text at 832.558.1616, schedule online, or email at leahs@roottorisecw.com. We offer a free 15-20 minute phone consultation to connect, hear what you’re looking for, and explore how we can support you. No pressure, no commitment.
