Roots to Rise is a solo telehealth therapy practice for adults 18 and older throughout Colorado. I founded it in 2026, and it is built around one idea borrowed from yoga. Before anything can rise, it has to root.

That is not a slogan about patience. It is how the work is sequenced. We tend the ground under your feet before we ask you to grow, and we treat that pacing as the work itself rather than as something to get through on the way to the real thing.

The practice is small on purpose. A low caseload means nobody is squeezed into a gap in an overloaded schedule, and no session is rushed to make the numbers work. It also means I can offer the slower, deeper kind of work a high-volume practice cannot afford to.

Every session is held by secure video. I am based in Cañon City, and because the work happens on a screen rather than in a waiting room, I can reach clients in Colorado communities where the nearest therapist is hours away, or where seeing a local provider would cost more privacy than they are willing to spend.

Most of the people who find me are tired of contorting themselves to fit spaces that were never built for them.

• The Exhausted and Burned Out
  Clients carrying chronic stress, depletion, and the particular fatigue that comes from holding everything together for everyone else.
  
  
• Examining What You Were Taught
  Anyone looking honestly at the messages they received about their worth, their body, and obedience, and deciding for themselves what they keep.
  
  
• Neurodivergent Clients
  ADHD, autistic, or still working it out, and looking for a therapist who treats a differently calibrated nervous system as information rather than a defect.
  
  
• Highly Sensitive People
  Anyone who has spent years being told their sensitivity is a liability.
  
  
• Trauma and Identity Work
  Stored experience that keeps surfacing, a life transition that changed the ground, or the slow work of figuring out who you are underneath what you were told to be.
  
  
• Living With Chronic Illness or Pain
  A body that will not cooperate, and the grief, logistics, and plain exhaustion that come with managing it.
  
  
• LGBTQ+ and Gender-Expansive Clients
  Queer, trans, and nonbinary clients are welcome here, and so is anyone still working out the language for it.
  
  
• Couples and Families
  Partners who feel stuck or disconnected, and families working through a hard season together.
  
  
• Older Adults
  Clients 65 and older, whether facing retirement, loss, a health change, or simply wanting room to think.
  
  
• Rural and Underserved Clients
  Clients in Colorado communities where the nearest therapist is a long drive, or where privacy is the real cost of getting care.
  
  

Where I Am Not the Right Fit

This practice is not the right fit for everyone. I work with adults 18 and older. Children and teens can join family sessions, but I do not see anyone under 18 as an individual client. It is not built for anyone in acute crisis who needs a higher level of care, and it is not a good match for someone looking only for short-term symptom management with no interest in slower work.

Licensure also limits me to clients who live in Colorado, since where you are sitting is what governs where you can be seen. When I am not the right place, I will help you find one that is.

I am Tansey Kurth, and I am the only clinician at Roots to Rise. I am a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado, I hold a Master of Science in Social Work from Metropolitan State University of Denver, and I have spent about twelve years in the mental health field.

Much of that time was spent where care is thin on the ground. I worked with adults managing both mental health and substance use concerns in a rural community, where the nearest specialist often meant a long drive and a longer wait. I spent years as an engagement specialist supporting high-risk young people and the families around them, and that work teaches you quickly how much of what looks like a symptom is really a circumstance.

I have also worked as a child and family therapist and as a school social worker. Both roles showed me how much of a person gets shaped in the households and classrooms they grew up in, and I bring that view into every session.

I am a Colorado native. Outside of session hours I am usually outside, somewhere in the mountains or with my hands in the garden, or out seeing what grows wild this time of year. Quieter days tend to end with a book and a comfortable place to read it. That same settledness is what I work to bring into a session.

That history shaped what this practice does and how it does it. It is why the caseload stays small, why the pacing is slow, and why rural Colorado is not an afterthought here.

I match the approach to the person rather than running everyone through the same protocol. These are the ones I draw on most.

• TF-CBT
  Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which works on the thoughts and beliefs that formed around what happened.
  
  
• DBT
  Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a set of practical skills for riding out intense feeling, tolerating distress, and staying steady in relationships when emotion runs high.
  
  
• ACT
  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which builds room for hard feeling instead of fighting it, then works on moving toward what matters to you while the hard feeling is still in the room.
  
  
• Emotion-Focused Therapy
  An approach that treats a feeling as a signal about what you need. We slow down long enough to hear what it is saying, instead of muting it or letting it take over.
  
  
• Internal Family Systems and Parts Work
  An approach that treats the conflicting parts of a person as protectors with reasons, rather than as problems to override.
  
  
• Somatic and Mindfulness-Based Practices
  Body-based work, because a nervous system does not respond to being reasoned with.
  
  
• Shame Resilience and Self-Compassion
  Noticing shame as it arrives, naming where it came from, and loosening its grip.
  
  
• A Deconstructing and Decolonizing Lens
  Two words that sound academic and mean something simple. We look at where a belief came from and who benefited from you holding it, instead of treating every inherited story as a personal failing.
  
  

All of it is holistic, strength-based, trauma-informed, and person-centered, and all of it is affirming of neurodivergent and highly sensitive clients, whose nervous systems I understand as differently calibrated rather than disordered.

The work here moves through five phases, mapped onto the life of a tree. It is not a checklist and it is not a straight line. A client may tend roots and reach toward canopy in the same season. But it describes how this work tends to unfold when it is allowed to move at its own pace.

• The Roots, Grounding and Safety
  Nervous system regulation, somatic orientation, and the felt safety everything else depends on. Nothing moves forward until the ground will hold it. For many clients this phase takes longer and goes deeper than conventional models allow, and that is not a problem. It is the work.
  From threat to presence.
  
  
• The Trunk, Witness and Deconstruct
  Examining the stories you were handed about your worth, your body, and your place in the world. Deconstruction here means taking a belief apart to see where it came from, then deciding for yourself whether to keep it. Shame resilience is central to this phase: learning to recognize shame when it shows up, understand where it came from, and move through it without letting it make decisions for you.
  From shame to witness.
  
  
• The Branches, Process and Integrate
  Reaching toward stored experience and completing it rather than rehearsing it. Trauma processing and parts work live here. Parts work treats a painful memory as a part of you still protecting against a threat that may no longer be present, and meets it with curiosity rather than contempt.
  From fragmented to whole.
  
  
• The Canopy, Reclaim and Rise
  Reclaiming the appetite, voice, boundaries, rest, and desire that were trained out of you somewhere along the way. We look at the structures of your life and ask which were genuinely chosen and which were assigned.
  From domesticated to free.
  
  
• The Fruit, Liberation in Motion
  Carrying the work into ordinary days, with a practice you author yourself and keep long after our work together ends. For one client that looks like setting a boundary without weeks of guilt. For another, it is the first time they rested without earning it.
  From surviving to living.
  
  

Clients who stay with the work tend to describe a similar shift by the end. They trust their own read on a situation again. They rest without first earning it. And they are finished performing a version of themselves for everyone else.

I do not put a timeline on any of it. Some phases take a few sessions and some take considerably longer. Going back to tend the roots partway through is not a setback either. Usually it means the work is going somewhere real.

Moksha is a Sanskrit word for liberation. In this practice it means freedom from the cycles of conditioning and shame that keep a person small and contracted.

It is a direction, not a religious requirement. Nothing here asks you to hold a particular belief, take up a practice, or adopt a spiritual framework you did not walk in with. Moksha simply gives every session one question to work from. What would it feel like to be free, rather than fixed.

That distinction carries the whole practice. Fixed assumes something about you is broken. Free assumes something about you was contained, and asks what happens when it is not.

A note on the word itself. Moksha comes from Hindu philosophy, where it holds a specific and sacred meaning: liberation from the cycle of samsara and union with the divine. I first encountered it through my own yoga practice. I am not Hindu and do not claim to speak for that tradition. The word is borrowed with gratitude and used here more narrowly, for a Western clinical setting. If you would like to understand Moksha in its original context, Hindu teachers and scholars are a far better source than this adaptation.