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Roots & Branches Wellness

Discover your roots, embrace your branches.

Perinatal + couples therapy, life transitions (faith, divorce, parenting, peri and menopause), trauma & grief work and more.

08/30/2026

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08/27/2026

For National Dog Day, we thought we would look at some relationship advice from someone with zero therapy licenses and a perfect track record: your dog.

He doesn't know what a Gottman ritual is. He just greets you at the door like you hung the moon, shakes off a bad moment instead of holding onto it, growls before he'd ever bite, and knows exactly what he needs without feeling weird about asking. Turns out that's most of what a strong relationship runs on.

We've learned a lot about relationships from our degrees and training, but our pets have also been great examples on what to do in a relationship.

08/26/2026

Hi, I'm Hannah! I'm an MSW intern and therapist under supervision of Laura Parry, LCSW in Lehi, Utah. I work with women navigating identity, self-worth, and life transitions; teens and adolescents; couples and individuals facing anxiety, perfectionism, and shame.

If any of that sounds like you, I'd love to connect. Reach out at rootsbrancheswellness.com/contact to schedule a free consultation.

08/25/2026

Hi, I'm Hannah — an MSW intern and therapist here at Roots & Branches. I work with women navigating identity, self-worth, and life transitions; teens and adolescents; and couples and individuals facing anxiety, perfectionism, and shame. If any of that sounds like you, I'd love to connect. Reach out at rootsbrancheswellness.com/contact to schedule a free consultation.

08/24/2026

Shanel recently completed Postpartum Support International's 2-day Components of Care training.

This training deepens clinical skill in perinatal mental health.

"I really enjoyed the depth of the Components of Care training and how strongly it emphasized education and recognizing each individual's unique experience. I'm grateful for opportunities like this that continue to strengthen the way I support clients with curiosity, compassion, and evidence-informed care." — Shanel Stevens, AMFT

Ongoing training like this is part of how we make sure perinatal mental health care stays current, specific, and responsive to the person in front of us.

You can learn more about Shanel on our website: https://www.rootsbrancheswellness.com/shanel

08/21/2026

High school raises the stakes twice over: academically, as decisions about the future start to feel urgent, and socially, as peer relationships and social media take up more of a teen's world.

This post covers the pressure of "what's next," what actually helps a teen's friendships versus what just feels like it should, the real risks and role of social media at this age, and how to stay engaged without tightening control as your teen takes on more independence.

Part two of a series on school transitions — catch part one on Pre-K through middle school if you missed it.

08/20/2026

Heard in sessions with Laura:

HALT
Don't trust the story if you're hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. These feelings or emotions can be unreliable narrators and it benefits everyone if you take a breath, and reevaluate once you've mitigated these situations.

08/19/2026

Back-to-school season isn't just a scheduling change — it's a nervous system change, for the whole family. Sensing, processing, and reacting are the three steps a nervous system uses to handle input, and a school-year routine runs a family through that same loop, often faster and more often than it did all summer.

This post breaks down what overload actually looks like at each stage — the sensory pileup of a school morning, the moment every ask starts to feel urgent, the snapping or checking out that isn't really about whatever triggered it — and gives a specific tool for each one: cutting down what's competing for attention during the routine, buying a second before reacting to a request, and resetting the body during the parts of the day that spike the most.

The parent's regulation sets the tone for the household. Kids co-regulate by borrowing a calmer nervous system nearby, which means how you're doing during drop-off, homework, and dinner rush matters as much as anything on the family calendar.

Swipe through for the sense-process-react framework and the tools for each stage.

08/18/2026

D-MER is a real, physiological reflex, not a reflection of how you feel about your baby or breastfeeding.

Right before let-down, dopamine drops sharply. That drop can bring on sadness, dread, self-doubt, or irritability that hits fast and leaves just as fast, usually within two minutes.

It's not postpartum depression. It's not a mental health failure. It's not something you're doing wrong. But if those feelings start showing up outside of feeding sessions, or aren't going away, that's worth talking to a provider about.

Skin-to-skin contact, slow breathing, and distraction (music, a snack, anything) can take the edge off in the moment.

If breastfeeding has felt harder than anyone told you it would be, our PSI-trained therapists are here for that conversation.

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35 N 500 W
Lehi, UT
84043

Telephone

+13853523251

Website

http://rootsbrancheswellness.com/

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