depression - trauma - anxiety - couples

Depth-oriented therapy in Houston, Texas

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Find grounding through therapy when you feel untethered.

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Work with someone you connect with

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Lauren Palmer

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Sana Maaz

Haley Macek

Lauren Bigelow

Michelle Saltzer

About

 helping you overcome internal barriers and

live a connected,
intentional life.

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therapy beneath the surface

You don’t exist in a vacuum. The anxiety in your head, the tension you carry in your body, the relationships that shape you, the roles you’ve learned to play, and the world you’re trying to function in are all connected.

You may have already tried to outthink what you’re feeling, to reason your way back to understanding. You’ve had the conversations, read the books, and told yourself it shouldn’t be this hard. But insight alone doesn’t always change the patterns your mind and body have learned over time.

At Rooted Therapy, we look at the whole picture. We use evidence-based approaches like EMDR, IFS, ACT, somatic work, EFT, and the Gottman Method to work with the places where emotion, history, relationships, environment, and the mind-body connection meet.

Our clinicians know that sometimes you don’t need to understand yourself more. You need to actually feel the shift.

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in-person and virtual sessions

Whether you’re sitting across from us in our Montrose office or logging in from home anywhere in Texas, therapy here is about more than location. We’re here to create a space where you can drop the performance, tell the truth, and work through what’s been keeping you braced for impact for entirely too long.

In-person or online, we meet you where you are (literally and emotionally).

What We Help With