Individual Counseling
Trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating relational wounds, grief, life transitions, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm.
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Trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating relational wounds, grief, life transitions, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. 🌱
Individual counseling at Rooted Bonds Counseling offers a steady, supportive space to explore what feels heavy, confusing, or deeply rooted beneath the surface. Many of the challenges we experience in adulthood are shaped by early relationships, attachment patterns, and experiences of loss or disconnection.
Therapy here is not about fixing you or rushing change. Instead, we work collaboratively and at a pace that feels safe and respectful—making room for understanding, emotional steadiness, and meaningful growth over time.
What Individual Counseling Looks Like Here:
My work is relational, gentle, and trauma-informed. I pay attention to your nervous system and to the parts of you that learned how to cope, protect, and get through difficult experiences.
I am Level 1 trained in the Healing Our Core Issues (HOCII) model and am DART-informed. This work helps us notice attachment patterns and explore how earlier experiences continue to shape your relationships, emotions, and sense of self. We approach this with care and curiosity, honoring what once helped you survive while supporting new ways of relating.
I have also completed basic training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR can be helpful when past experiences or trauma feel stuck or continue to show up in the present. It supports the brain’s natural processing and often does not require going into extensive detail.
I also draw from approaches such as narrative therapy, CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and creative or expressive practices. Everything is tailored to you, and we move at a pace that feels steady, respectful, and emotionally safe — with room for both healing and growth.
My Approach:
Individual counseling may support concerns such as:
Developmental and relational trauma
Attachment wounds and relational patterns
Anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm
Life transitions (college, adulthood, career changes)
Breakups and relational ruptures
Low self-worth and inner critic work
Boundary-setting, people-pleasing, and self-advocacy
Highly sensitive, intuitive, or deeply feeling traits
Grief and loss of many kinds
A meaningful area of focus within my work includes support related to the human–animal bond and pet loss grief, which you can learn more about below.
Areas I Commonly Work With:
For many people, relationships with animals are deeply significant. The loss of a pet, anticipatory grief, or the ongoing stress of caring for an animal with medical or chronic conditions can be profoundly painful—and often overlooked.
Human–Animal Bond & Pet Loss Support:
What You Can Expect:
Therapy is collaborative, paced with care, and grounded in emotional safety. You don’t need to have a clear agenda or the “right” words to begin—clarity often emerges through the process itself.
This is a space where your experiences are taken seriously, your boundaries are respected, and your healing unfolds at a pace that feels sustainable.