Roots to Rise works with adults 18 and older who live in Colorado, including older adults. Many arrive exhausted, carrying something that happened years ago, or working out what they were taught about their own worth.

Queer, trans, and nonbinary clients are welcome, as are clients living with chronic illness or chronic pain. I also work with couples and with families, where the adults are the clients. I see clients in every part of the state by video, with particular attention to rural communities where the nearest therapist is a long drive away.

No. Roots to Rise is a telehealth practice and every session is held by secure video. There is no public office and no in-person option.

That is by design rather than by circumstance. Meeting from your own home removes the drive, the waiting room, the childcare scramble, and the chance of running into a neighbor in the parking lot.

It is a fair question to ask before you commit. Here is what the work looks like. I start slowly, pay close attention to your voice and your breathing, and check in about how the format is landing.

Some people find a screen makes hard things easier to say. Others need a few sessions before it stops feeling strange. Both are normal.

The consultation is a short, low pressure conversation held by video or phone. We talk about what you are looking for and whether this practice is the right place for it.

There is no intake paperwork, no cost, and no expectation that you schedule afterward. If I am not the right fit, I will point you toward someone who is.

Mostly listening. I ask what brought you here, what you are hoping for, and enough about your history and your current life to understand the ground you are standing on.

You are not expected to tell me everything on the first day. I will not push you toward the hardest material before I know it can be held safely.

Yes. I bill in network through three insurance platforms: Headway, Grow Therapy, and Rula. Each one works with a different set of plans, and some plans, like Cigna, are on more than one.

You can check your coverage on the platform before your first session rather than finding out afterward. If your plan is not on any of them, I can give you a superbill for out of network reimbursement, or we can talk about self-pay and sliding scale options during the free consultation.

A self-pay session is $125. Most clients use insurance instead, and you can check your coverage before the first session. Sessions run 55 to 60 minutes, depending on which platform you book through.

If you have out of network benefits, I can give you a superbill to submit for reimbursement. Reduced fee appointments are also available. Ask about either during the free consultation. If you are paying privately, you also have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of your costs before you begin.

Yes. Reduced fee appointments are available for clients who pay privately. If cost is what is holding you back, bring it up during the free consultation and we will talk it through.

Money is a practical obstacle rather than an embarrassing one, and it is far easier to sort out before you start than partway through.

A phone, tablet, or computer with a camera, an internet connection, and a space where you can speak without being overheard. That is the whole list.

You do not need special software, a fast connection, or any particular skill with technology. Headphones help with privacy on a busy day but are not required.

Sessions run on a secure, encrypted video platform, and the same confidentiality rules that apply in an office apply to a session held at your own kitchen table.

I walk you through what confidentiality covers, and the small number of legal exceptions to it, before your first session rather than after.

Then turn it off. You can sit on the floor, keep the lights low, or hold the dog, and the session still counts.

You control the room and how much of it I see. For anyone whose sense of safety was taken somewhere else, that control is often the reason this format works at all.

I draw on Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems and parts work, Emotion-Focused Therapy, compassion-focused work, somatic and mindfulness based practices, narrative work, motivational interviewing, and shame resilience and self compassion work.

Which of those I reach for depends on you rather than on a set protocol. All of it is holistic, strength based, trauma informed, person centered, and paced so the ground is steady before I ask anything of it.

The work moves through five phases mapped onto the life of a tree. The Roots build safety, the Trunk examines inherited belief, the Branches process stored experience, the Canopy reclaims what was trained out of you, and the Fruit carries the work into daily life.

It is not a straight line. A client may tend roots and reach toward canopy in the same season.

Yes. I work with ADHD, autistic, and highly sensitive clients, including people who suspect they are neurodivergent but have never been assessed.

I treat a differently calibrated nervous system as information about how you work rather than a defect to correct. I do not provide diagnostic testing, though I can point you toward providers who do.

No. Deconstruction here means taking a belief apart to see where it came from, then deciding for yourself whether to keep it. It is not the same as leaving faith and it has no required destination.

I hold no position on where you land. Some clients rebuild a faith that fits them and some do not, and both are real results of honest work.

Not as individual clients. Roots to Rise works with adults 18 and older. Children and teens are welcome to take part in family therapy sessions alongside the adults in their family, who are the clients and are billed for the sessions.

If you are looking for individual therapy for a teenager, say so during the free consultation and I will point you toward Colorado providers who work with that age group.

No. You do not have to be in crisis to belong here, and waiting until things become unbearable is not a requirement for starting.

That said, this practice is not a crisis service. If you need immediate help, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or contact Colorado Crisis Services at (844) 493-8255.

I will tell you plainly. This practice is not built for anyone in acute crisis who needs a higher level of care, and it is not a match for someone wanting short term symptom management with no interest in slower work.

Licensure also limits me to clients located in Colorado. When I am not the right place, I help you find one that is.