Offerings

You deserve the support you are seeking.

At Rootwork, we offer therapy, family mediation, clinical supervision, and workshops to help you care for yourself and your loved ones. Often, caring for yourself requires change, and all change requires ongoing effort to understand what hurts, what helps, and what sustains wellness for you.

Read below to learn how we will partner with you in the work it takes to understand and care for yourself.

For Clients.

 

  • We practice individual, relationship, family, and group psychotherapy from a relational and psychodynamic approach, incorporating strategies from other therapeutic frameworks to respond to our clients’ unique needs. This means we use a caring, safe, challenging, and theoretically sound approach to support clients as they unearth, understand, and embrace who they are, so they may feel grounded enough to enact the changes they desire.

    Individual, relationship, and family therapy will start with a brief consultation call and an initial evaluative session so we can decide whether and how to pursue your goals together. As we grow in our relationship, we will meet weekly or biweekly so there is enough time to develop trust in each other and our unique, evolving process. This approach serves clients coming to therapy with a variety of experiences and needs from managing anxiety and depression to naming and processing trauma, improving the quality of significant relationships, developing and pursuing professional goals, loving and caring for self, and resisting and healing from the effects of systemic oppression.

    Group therapy expands your community of support beyond a therapist to other group members with compatible lived experiences, strengths, and challenges. Rootwork offers groups around particular therapeutic needs, especially navigating race- and gender-specific challenges, romantic relationships, and new parenthood. Each group will have a maximum of eight members and meet weekly for approximately three months at a time to work toward goals group members will set altogether.

    Please see the FAQs page and consult with Emily or Jasmine for more information about session fees and scheduling.

  • We believe therapy is not the only space where growth and repair can happen between people. We offer family mediation to support your successful navigation of the transitions that can have such lasting effects from co-parenting arrangements to divorce decision making. We can help you and your loved ones identify your needs and communicate them safely and meaningfully to one another to create a solid foundation for the decisions that will form your life story. 

    Typically, the mediation process involves:

    • Individual pre-meetings with each person involved to discuss what is bringing you to mediation, your goals and needs for the process, and what you should expect and prepare for a successful mediation

    • A series of mediations (the number and duration will be based on your needs and typically agreed to before starting the process) 

    • A follow-up individual phone call to discuss your impressions of the process and any related, ongoing needs Rootwork might help you address

    Please note, our mediator is not an attorney. She will help you identify and clarify issues between you and your loved ones, mitigating barriers to effective conflict resolution that could complicate eventual legal proceedings. You will need to work with legal professionals to evaluate and formalize any agreements you and your loved ones choose to draft during mediation at Rootwork.

    For more information about mediation, please visit the FAQs page and email Jasmine.

  • We value lifelong learning, as it deepens and expands the sacred relationship each of us has with ourselves. Through virtual workshops, we share new research findings, evidence-based strategies, and professional experiences that you can apply to your ongoing self-study and care.

 

For Colleagues.

 

  • Through one-on-one supervision, we will build a relationship that nurtures your development as a clinician, while also prioritizing your clients’ needs. For the duration of our supervisory relationship, we are making a commitment to:

    • increasing your knowledge of and exposure to clinical theory

    • cultivating your capacity to conceptualize what is happening for your clients and what skills, techniques, and interventions could be most useful at what times

    • encouraging trust in your clinical instincts and style

    • modeling and sharing insights about the business of psychotherapy

    • supporting you in your preparation for the licensure exam

    Please contact Emily or Jasmine directly to learn more.

  • We believe clinical practice deepens and refines within community. To expand our community and yours, we will begin offering small group clinical consultation monthly in fall 2022. Consultation will be a space to present cases, try on other perspectives about your clients and work, gather resources that support your practice, and experience care and support for however you are feeling in your work.  If you are interested in joining a consultation group, please email us at connect@rootworkpsych.com as soon as you are ready so you can be included in the planning process.

  • The workshops we offer are collaborative learning spaces where we share our wisdom about ethical, theoretically grounded, and meaningful professional practice and you share your practical wisdom with us so we may all grow as practitioners.