Root-based Healing, PLLC

Trauma does not always look like a life falling apart. You may be successful, responsible, and capable while privately struggling with anxiety, depression, chronic stress, difficult relationships, or a persistent sense that you have lost connection with yourself. You may understand why you feel the way you do and still find yourself repeating patterns you cannot seem to change. I’m Iris Queen, Psychotherapist and Practice Owner of Root-based Healing, PLLC, a specialty psychotherapy practice on Bainbridge Island. I work with women whose present-day emotional and relational struggles have been shaped by trauma, whether from a single event, repeated experiences, or unmet emotional needs during childhood. Our work goes beyond managing symptoms. Together, we explore the patterns beneath them: how you learned to protect yourself, relate to others, respond to uncertainty, and make decisions about your own life. Treatment is individualized and thoughtfully paced, with attention to increasing self-awareness, nervous-system regulation, relational steadiness, and your capacity to make choices aligned with who you are rather than what trauma required. Root-based Healing operates under a boutique psychotherapy model which means a deliberately limited caseload, allowing for individualized, responsive care. Treatment may include additional sessions, brief check-ins, and between-session support when clinically appropriate. If you are ready to understand what is happening beneath the surface—not simply become better at enduring it—I welcome you to reach out.