Services
Individual Therapy
Our therapists will use eclectic, evidence-based practices help you explore your roots and provide insight into your thoughts, relationships, and patterns of behaviors. We will partner with you to branch out to reach your goals with new skills to communicate, effectively assert yourself and manage your emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
Couples Therapy
Our first priority in couples therapy is to understand your story; as a couple and as individuals. This will help us understand your connection, triggers, and patterns. We will provide techniques that will improve your connection, your communication, and your sex life. While we are eclectic practitioners, we lean heavily on the evidence-based Gottman Therapy techniques and practices for couples therapy, which is based on 30+ years of research.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is an under utilized methodology in private practice, which is unfortunate because when used in conjunction with individual therapy it improves outcomes. Giving and receiving empathy reduces shame and stigma for all involved. Learning skills in a group allows for discussion and better understanding and retention of the materials. Success stories provide motivation and willingness.
Diversity is Celebrated Here
Different is Beautiful
Here we recognize privilege and oppression. We want to hear how your story was shaped by societal behaviors and beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, disability, immigration or socioeconomic status. We acknowledge and treat the trauma caused by racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, xenophobia, ableism, classism, size-ism, and religious prejudice. In our own development, we examine our own biases, work on continuous improvement. We can also find empathy for those who do not understand their privilege and consider it our responsibility to guide them in that work.
Love is Love
At Roots & Branches Therapy, our hearts and minds are open to the full spectrum of healthy romantic relationships, sexual (and asexual) identities, and sexual kinks.Be Who You Are
However you identify in terms of gender or if you are still unsure , we are here to support you in defining who you are on your own terms.
Respect Your Beliefs
Regardless of your therapist’s belief system, we pledge to honor yours. Making meaning and having faith/hope are important to healing, but as a team we will work to accomplish that whether you are devout, spiritual, agnostic, or atheist.Specialites
Each member of our team is hired for their diversity of lived experience and expertise so that we may learn from each other. Below are our strengths as a practice, but there may be individual therapists who have specialities not identified below (eg. one therapist in our practice has expertise in sex therapy while other do not). If you’d like to read the individual therapist profiles click the link.
Trauma
Trauma is a cognitive distortion between how you see yourself in the world and something that happened to you. We are expert in treating survivors of rape, childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, community violence, racism, sexual discrimination, violence in the workplace, illness, and accidents.
Relationships & Connection
Do you struggle to maintain romantic relationships? friendships? or have conflict with family members? By exploring your patterns and triggers in relationships, we can help you improve your relationships and decide when it is time to move on.
Emotional Regulation
Do you get so overwhelmed by emotion that you lose control ? lash-out? have panic attacks? self-harm? Maybe you can't even identify what you are feeling? We can teach you mindfulness techniques that will help you recognizing triggers as they happen, self-soothe, and choose the best way to react.
Depression & Anxiety
Depression and anxiety are far too common in our society and can often fuel one another. We also understand that exhaustion and paralysis makes it feel impossible to do what you know you need to do to feel better. We can help you identify what drives your depression and/or anxiety and provide you with evidence-based techniques and a step-wise approach that will move you towards wellness.
Issues of Identity & Self-Esteem
Are you struggling to find a space where you feel you can be fully yourself? Do you feel like you have lost who you are? Or that you never knew who you were in the first place? Do you feel like you are never "good enough"? We can help you discover your strengths, accept who you are, and identify for opportunities for growth.
Stress, Change, and the challenges of COVID and the macroenvironment
There is no doubt that all of us have experienced trauma and stress just in living through the last few years. We have tools and techniques that can help you move through discomfort and cope with everyday stress and life changes.
Lack of Focus, Procrastination, and Overwhelm
Are you always busy but never accomplishing your priorities? Do you procrastinate? Has working at home during COVID proved impossible? We will encourage you to be kind to yourself as most people struggle with this at some point in their life. We will identify why this is happening for you, treat the underlying cause, and give you tips and techniques to improve.
Assertiveness, Anger & Conflict
Do you think anger is a toxic emotion? Whether you get overwhelmed and act out or struggle to stand up for yourself, we can help you by examining your triggers for anger, teaching you skills that will help you self-soothe, and use this important emotion in an effective manner.