Hello. I’m Iris Queen, Psychotherapist and Practice Owner of Root-based Healing, a specialty psychotherapy practice based on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Root-based Healing offers in-person, trauma-responsive psychotherapy for women seeking recovery and healing following traumatic experiences. Many of the women treated at Root-based Healing have spent years over-functioning, disconnected from themselves, and performing steadiness while emotionally depleted beneath the weight of the invisible burden they’ve carried—their trauma. Our work is grounded, relational, and thoughtfully paced. Recovery isn’t approached as a single intervention, but as the intentional process of changing the conditions under which the nervous system operates. Through this work, we create the conditions in which healing can emerge. Sessions focus on nervous-system regulation, understanding trauma-shaped patterns, building internal safety, and increasing the capacity to move through life with greater awareness, agency, and choice. Care is structured to support steadiness and sustainable change rather than quick symptom relief. Couples and family work may be incorporated when relational dynamics are central to the recovery and healing of an established patient. Care at Root-based Healing begins with a structured 15-minute Clinical Consultation to determine whether this trauma-responsive approach is the appropriate next step in your recovery and healing.
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