ABOUT ROOT TO RISE
About Root To Rise Therapy
We believe in providing high-end, quality, compassionate mental health care to couples and individuals seeking to increase their self-awareness and enhance their relationships.
Our goal is to help our clients release painful patterns that they carry from their past, and create relationships and lives that they love. We are committed to helping you create healthy and thriving relationships, starting with your relationship with yourself. We provide couples counseling and marriage therapy, pre-marital counseling, and individual therapy for relationship issues, depression and anxiety.
We help our clients work through relationship issues, anxiety, fear, and depression using modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, EMDR, Family Systems, and Attachment Theory.
We also believe in providing care for the care-takers, natural nurturers, people-pleasers, those who are extremely good at caring for others, often at the expense of their own well-being. We help our clients learn how to take care of themselves in order to take care of others better.
We provide kind, comforting, compassionate care, and a warm, safe haven for our clients. We became therapists because we believe in the value of the therapeutic process, and that we as therapists are not the agent for change but that we facilitate optimal conditions for our clients to heal themselves. We believe that in order to rise up in our relationships and lives, we must first be firmly grounded and rooted within ourselves.
At Root To Rise, we believe that relationships are our greatest teachers and that there is no such thing as wasted time. Since our relationship with ourselves serves as a blueprint for all other relationships, our therapists are committed to daily practices and self-inquiry that build insight and awareness.
Becky White MFT, Founder & Director
Becky is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #93760), Registered Yoga Teacher, EMDR Therapist, and Certified Emotion Regulation Counselor, with extensive training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She works with couples and individuals to help them practice healthy self-care, and create satisfying, loving relationships with themselves and others. Learn more about how she can help.
Jessica Leader, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Jessica Leader is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT #132711) and EMDR Therapist that specializes in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, ASD, relationship issues, transitions, familial conflicts, self-identity and exploration. Jessica integrates different modalities into her therapy sessions including EMDR, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Meditation, and other evidence- based approaches, creating individualized treatment plans and goals with each client in a nurturing, non-judgmental environment, and has experience working through a multicultural lens.
Atalie Abramovici, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Atalie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #144784) who specializes in working with anxiety, depression, self-esteem work, relationship struggles, separation and coparenting, trauma, grief, life transitions, ADHD, and trichotillomania. Atalie works from a Humanistic and Strengths-Based approach, emphasizing the client’s innate strengths, as well as their ability to fulfill their potential and maximize their wellbeing. Atalie also specializes in utilizing modalities such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, Existential Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Psychodynamic approaches. She strives to provide an individualized and collaborative approach to treatment planning and goal setting. Atalie embodies a stance of non-judgement, empathy, warmth, and compassion.
Sophia Rodriguez, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Sophia Rodriguez is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #141267) specializing in anxiety, depression, grief, identity development, personality disorders, and relationship issues.
Sophia provides counseling with a psychodynamic approach for individuals, couples, families, and adolescents. In sessions with Sophia, clients can expect to feel welcome and heard. She holds an unconditional positive regard for her clients and leads with kindness, empathy, and respect.As a Cuban-American, Sophia provides services in both English and Spanish and is passionate about working with individuals across diverse backgrounds.
Kalie Pham, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Kalie Pham is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #130514) with expertise in helping individuals and couples facing anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, self-esteem and identity issues, and OCD.
Kalie's approach is rooted in a blend of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and mindfulness practices, through an attachment/emotionally-focused lens. She believes in the crucial connection between the mind and the body, using this insight to assist clients in identifying what's manifesting in their bodies. This approach helps clients label their experiences and develop skills for self-soothing and nervous system regulation.
Helene Bringsli, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Helene Bringsli is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #142961) and EMDR Therapist, specializing in couples, trauma/PTSD, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, life transitions, and OCD.
Helene integrates a compassionate, yet direct approach that empowers clients to explore their emotional experiences in a safe and non-judgmental space. Her clients often describe her as kind, deeply caring, and someone who is genuinely invested in their personal growth. Helene is particularly passionate about helping clients navigate trauma and the complexity of relational dynamics, both individually and within the context of couples therapy. She works from an attachment-based and relational lens, with a focus on how early life experiences shape present-day emotional responses and relationships.
Our Services
Why Root To Rise?
In 2013, Root To Rise Therapy Founder and CEO Becky White MFT completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training. It was during her training that she was introduced to the concept of “Root To Rise”. Yoga emphasizes the placing of the foot on the floor- how to press all four corners of the sole of the foot into the floor, the big toe, baby toe, food pad, heels and inner and outer arches. The concept is that the more rooted we are in the ground—the better footing we have—the higher we can rebound up. When we have the stability in our roots, we are able to safely extend through our spine, core, and crown of the head, and reach up higher and taller— that by rooting down, we are able to rise up.
Becky jotted this phrase down in her notebook (she is quite the note-taker), knowing that this phrase was important, but not knowing what a key role it would come to play in her own growth not only as a student of yoga but also as a Marriage & Family Therapist, entrepreneur, and business owner.
Root To Rise is a balancing of masculine and feminine energies, the idea that we create a stable structure so that we are are able to access our greatest creativity and freedom. Root To Rise also encapsulates Attachment Theory, the idea that from a stable base, we are able to venture into the world with courage and curiosity.
At Root To Rise Therapy we believe that getting grounded, stable, and safe in our Roots is what enables us to Rise Up to new heights in our careers, relationships, and physical bodies. Our therapists are committed to helping our clients secure their roots, ground themselves, and create foundations to rise to the heights that they are capable of.
Our Mission & Values
We believe in providing kind, comforting, compassionate care.
We believe in providing a warm, safe haven for our clients.
We believe in doing the work to get the results.
We believe in doing the work that we ask our clients to do, so that we are showing up and present for ourselves and our clients. Our commitment is to helping our clients create a relationship and life that they love.
We believe in honesty and being direct and clear in our communication.
We believe in having clearly stated principles that guide our work and also the flexibility to make decisions on a case-by-case basis.
We believe that all people everywhere deserve to and can find alignment and satisfaction in their personal lives, work lives, and intimate relationships.
We believe in high quality relationships for the long haul.
We became therapists because we believe in the value of the therapeutic process, and that we as therapists are not the agent for change but that we facilitate optimal conditions for our clients to heal themselves.
We value the courage to go deep and seek the truth.
“1. It is not your fault.
2. It is your responsibility.
3. It is unfair that this is your thing.
4. This is your thing.
5. This will never stop being your thing until you face it.
6. You cannot do it alone.
7. Only you can do it.
8. I love you.
9. I will never stop reminding you of these things.””