I was recently over at a friend’s house for dinner and was quite struck by their daughter, a bright six-year-old that I have known most of her life. I have been shown her paintings and drawings...

As a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist, I facilitate a type of therapy that helps kids “re-wire” their neural pathways, so they feel more confident in managing emotions, challenges, and, well, all...

When words fall short, art steps in to speak for us. For many, expressing emotions—especially those tied to trauma—can feel overwhelming, confusing, or even impossible. But there's another way to...

I know what you may be thinking: why would I go to a mental health practitioner to work on my chronic pain? I felt the same way. I went to two doctors, three physical therapists, a handful of...

EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, has been a trending therapy in recent years. I’ve seen various Tik Toks about the helpfulness of EMDR as a type of trauma therapy, and for...

“Other people have it so much worse than me, so I shouldn’t feel the way I do.” “Because I have caused harm to my partner, I am not allowed to have needs or feelings in my relationship.” “It’s not a...

I’ve noticed since the storm, I have felt more sensitive to the weather. I find myself wincing or feeling a bit off on really windy days. That rain makes me feel tired, sometimes a sunny cool day...

So many of us want to feel better. We want to stop feeling so sad, tired, anxious, and depressed. As a therapist, my North Star is that a large part of how we feel better is by actually being with...

Hello! This is Claire Robinson, one of the newest counselors to join the Mending Roots team. It’s not often you get the chance to learn about your counselor/potential counselors, so I thought I’d...

I ask myself this a lot, frankly. The tropes, archetypes, narratives, and socially informed values of what masculine is and isn't are, well, everywhere. Masculine identifying individuals face a...

Imagine a room. Inside this room there is everything you need. Only, it isn’t a room, because it has no walls, no floor, no ceiling. And it doesn’t exist only in your imagination- it is real and...

Life can feel like a rollercoaster—full of unexpected bumps, turns, and drops. We often wear masks of “everything’s fine” to keep it all together, while inside, we’re unraveling. But vulnerability,...