Mood Disorder Therapy

At Upward Roots, I work with individuals experiencing depression, bipolar disorder, persistent low mood, or mood swings to understand what’s behind their emotional patterns and find ways to feel steadier and more grounded. Together, we will explore how life experiences, attachment, and stress shape your emotions while building practical tools to help you manage mood swings and respond to emotional stressors with internal ease and peace.

Mood disorder therapy at Upward Roots helps individuals experiencing depression, bipolar disorder, persistent low mood, or mood swings understand the roots of their emotional patterns and develop strategies to regain balance and stability. This work benefits anyone struggling with overwhelming sadness, irritability, or emotional dysregulation who wants to cultivate a more grounded, resilient internal foundation.

Through therapy, you will gain insight into how past experiences, attachment patterns, and stress responses influence your mood, while learning practical tools to regulate emotions, manage triggers, and nurture your well-being. By strengthening the roots of your emotional health, you can create a stable platform for growth, reconnect with your authentic self, and navigate relationships and daily life with greater ease.

How Upward Roots Is Different

At Upward Roots, we dig deep to the root of mood patterns rather than just addressing surface symptoms. Together, we will honor the full spectrum of your emotional experiences and focus on building a resilient internal foundation. In your sessions, we will integrate mind, body, and relational perspectives to help you regulate mood, strengthen coping skills, and foster lasting emotional growth.

What to Expect in Sessions

Sessions are collaborative and tailored to your needs. You can expect to:

Explore patterns of mood and emotional triggers
Track nervous system responses to understand emotional reactivity
Develop coping strategies for mood regulation and stress management
Use mindfulness, somatic, and parts-based techniques to strengthen stability
Practice building insight, resilience, and emotional flexibility
Process any events or storylines that keep you fearful of ongoing mood instability, utilizing EMDR

Each session begins and ends with grounding and integration exercises to help you leave with a sense of clarity, calm, and empowerment that carries into your daily life.

Approaches That Meet You Where You Are

Mood disorder therapy may include:

DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience) therapy bridges attachment theory and somatic psychotherapy, helping individuals repair attachment wounds while supporting post-traumatic growth. With simple, attuned skills, we’ll meet your core relational needs as they arise, offering corrective experiences to practice and build secure, nurturing, and resilient relationships.

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This work helps you cultivate a solid emotional foundation, allowing your authentic self to grow with resilience, stability, and the capacity for healthy, connected relationships.

At Upward Roots, our goal is to help you nurture the roots of your emotional well-being, giving your mind and heart the space to rest, heal, and grow. By tending to your emotional needs, you can navigate life and relationships with resilience, clarity, and self-compassion. This work allows your authentic self to flourish and thrive. Reach out today to begin cultivating your emotional balance and take the first step toward lasting growth.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Starting therapy often begins with a massive sigh, an exhaustion of looking for help, for relief, for change. I welcome your curiosities and hope that you will begin to find answers to your unsettled questions on the pages of my website.

Here are answers to the most common questions I am asked about working with Upward Roots. For any additional questions, please reach out so I can support your next step of growth.

Upward Roots offers trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, attachment-based individual and couples therapy, and EMDR intensives.
- Individual Trauma Therapy (C-PTSD & PTSD)
  Sessions are oriented toward helping the nervous system process and release stored trauma that continues to show up as anxiety, chronic stress, emotional reactivity, or shutdown. EMDR is integrated with parts work and somatic psychotherapy to address developmental, relational, and situational trauma, as well as body-based trauma responses.
- Individual Attachment Therapy
  Early and ongoing relationships shape how we protect ourselves, connect with others, and navigate closeness. This work begins by identifying your unique attachment style and reflecting on relational patterns such as people-pleasing or hyperindependence. Mind-body approaches, including imagery, inner child healing, parts work, boundary setting, and nervous system regulation, support greater security and flexibility in adult relationships.
- Couples Therapy
  Relational distress often emerges from repeated patterns rather than isolated conflicts. Using evidence-based, attachment-focused frameworks such as PACT, the Gottman Method, Attachment Core Pattern Therapy and EMDR for couples, therapy focuses on slowing these cycles, strengthening communication, understanding each partner’s internal worlds, and repairing relational injuries while remaining mindful of the impact of past trauma.
- EMDR Intensives
  For some individuals, extended in-person sessions allow for deeper focus and momentum than traditional weekly therapy. EMDR Intensives range from half-day to multi-day sessions in Carlsbad, California, and are designed for accelerated, immersive trauma processing, integration, and nervous system regulation.
- Support for Therapists and Clinicians
  Holding space for others can make it easy to neglect your own internal landscape. Individual and group settings offer room to explore personal patterns, countertransference, and burnout within a supportive, trauma-informed, relational context.
1. By scheduling a free 20-minute phone consultation. I want to make sure both of us feel confident in our ability to meet your therapy goals together before we start unpacking your history in sessions. We can decide together if weekly sessions, twice a week sessions, or an intensive is the right therapy container for you at this time.
2. We will choose the day and time that works best for your emotional availability for this deeper therapeutic work. Consistency is a key ingredient in felt-safety and trust. We will build safety within predictability, knowing that each week we will meet and attune to your inner world together, on the same day, at the same time, whenever possible.
3. In our first sessions, we’ll explore together the influences on who you are today–the significant people and places that leave you feeling your most confident, secure, and calm self. We will begin with resourcing through imagery, resource tapping, and somatic movement to encourage felt-safety in your attachment and nervous systems.
4. Together, we will set your goals and direction for your healing. We will discuss which formal diagnosis makes the most sense if you are seeking reimbursement on a PPO insurance plan.
5. Healing takes time and trust. We’ll unpack the stories and, with time, find the freedom to move your body and find the flexibility to think more kindly of yourself–past, present and future.
- Individual therapy: 50 minutes – $200 | 80 minutes – $320
- Couples therapy: 50 minutes – $200 | 80 minutes – $320 | 110 minutes – $440
- Extended or deep work sessions: 3 hours – $720 | 4 hours – $960
- EMDR intensives: Half day – $900 | Full day – $1,700
Extended sessions and intensives are prorated. Sliding fee options may be available. Upward Roots is out-of-network for insurance, but Superbills are provided for PPO reimbursement for standard sessions.
At this time, Upward Roots is out-of-network with all insurance providers. If you plan to seek reimbursement, you can contact your insurance company to ask about your out-of-network benefits. Sharing the billing codes used in sessions will help them provide clear and accurate information about your coverage:
- 90791 - All first sessions
- 90834 - 50-minute individual sessions
- 90837 - Individual sessions, 53-60 minute sessions
- 90847 - 50-minute couples session

Mood Disorder Therapy

How Upward Roots Is Different

What to Expect in Sessions

Approaches That Meet You Where You Are

Frequently Asked Questions

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