Julie Stark, LCSW

12/18/2025

Meet Julie Stark, LCSW — co-founder of Root & Rise and the creator of a therapy approach that speaks directly to the creatives, the sensitives, the deep feelers, the visionaries.

Julie blends science with creativity: CBT, grounding tools, and evidence-based strategies woven together with art, photography, writing, movement, and expression.
Because sometimes words just aren’t enough — and the creative mind needs more than talk therapy to truly heal.

Her work is for the people who’ve been told they’re “too sensitive” or “too much.”
Julie knows that sensitivity is actually a superpower — especially when it’s channeled with intention, curiosity, and a therapist who truly gets how your mind works.

Her model helps you:

Get grounded and emotionally clear

Break out of judgment and into curiosity

Build psychological flexibility

Reconnect with identity, meaning, and expression

Develop what we call Mental Wealth-Care™

This is therapy for the whole person — mind, creativity, nervous system, and story.

If you’re a creative who’s been holding too much for too long… she’d love to work with you.

In this video, Julie Stark, LCSW — co-founder of Root & Rise Clinical Specialists — explains the therapy model she developed specifically for creatives, sens...

12/18/2025

Our very own Julie Stark, LCSW is highlighted in Palm Beach Mom Collective, (thank you Curated Therapy Collective for giving us an opportunity to write for this. Check it out here:

By: Julie Stark, LCSW We usually think of a spotlight as something that shines on a stage…bright, bold, revealing. But the most powerful spotlight you’ll ever use is the one you […]

12/17/2025

Why is therapy important? What’s the point of therapy and what do therapists actually do? Advice for finding a good therapist?

Therapy helps you see your blind spots, break patterns, regulate your nervous system, and build a life aligned with your values.

A good therapist:

challenges you

supports you

helps you understand yourself

holds you accountable

provides tools, not band-aids

How to find the right fit:

someone with emotional intelligence

someone who’s not afraid to be direct

someone who has range (multiple modalities)

someone whose energy feels safe and grounded

You’re not looking for a friend. Your’re looking for a partner in your growth.

12/16/2025

At R&R, therapy doesn’t happen in isolation because you don’t heal in isolation.

Through our partnership with Limitless Integrative Wellness, clients can blend psychotherapy with services that support the nervous system, body, and spirit, including:
✨ Red light therapy
✨ Vitamin IV & NAD+ infusions
✨ Hypnotherapy
✨ Massage & lymphatic drainage
✨ Reiki, energy work & cupping
✨ Harmonic Egg (sound & frequency healing)
✨ Acupuncture
✨ Functional nutrition
✨ Concierge psychiatry & medical care
✨ Private personal training
…and more.

This is therapy and whole body wellness - grounded in clinical expertise and expanded through holistic, integrative support.

12/16/2025

This is The Stark Contrast™.

It’s not about what you see in the image.
It’s about what the image brings up in you.

Photography becomes the entry point.
Emotion becomes the language.
Insight becomes the shift.

The Stark Contrast™ blends evidence-based therapy with visual reflection to access parts of the nervous system that words alone can’t always reach.

This is therapy that asks different questions—
and gets different answers.

🖤 Created by Julie Stark, LCSW
📍 Offered through Root & Rise Clinical Specialists
✨ Not surface-level. Not passive. Not generic.

12/16/2025

This is therapy in real time.

Hands grounded.
Bodies settled.
No rushing to fix or explain.

At Root & Rise, we pay attention to what’s happening before the words come out — the tension in the hands, the breath patterns, the pauses that actually matter.

Because insight doesn’t always arrive loudly.
Sometimes it shows up when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to stay.

This is the work.
Unfiltered. Attuned. Human.

🖤 Root & Rise Clinical Specialists
Therapy, redefined.

12/10/2025

Let’s clear this up: AI is powerful - but it is not therapy.

At Root & Rise, we use AI for:
✔ admin support
✔ organization
✔ backend efficiency

But here’s the line that never blurs:
AI cannot replace human attunement, emotional regulation, trauma training, accountability, or relational healing.

Your therapist sees your patterns.
Tracks your nervous system.
Holds you accountable.
Keeps you safe.
Guides you through complexity.

AI can complement the work.
But it cannot BE the work.

Use the tools.
Trust the humans.

12/10/2025

Most people don’t struggle to feel like therapy is working because they’re “doing therapy wrong.” They struggle because they think they have to show up polished, composed, and already halfway healed.

At Root & Rise, honesty is the work.
Honesty about your patterns.
Honesty about your fear.
Honesty about what you want and what you don’t.

12/10/2025

12/05/2025

🌿 Save the Date!

5-Day EMDR Basic Training with Sandra B. Stanford, LMHC, EMDRIA Approved Basic & Advanced Trainer

Are you ready to deepen your clinical skills and transform your therapeutic practice? Join us for an EMDRIA-approved 5-day EMDR Basic Training, hosted by Limitless Integrative Wellness & K2-Catering.

✨ This comprehensive, EMDRIA-approved course dives into the science of healing and the art of effective therapy—equipping you to integrate EMDR into your work with authenticity and confidence.

📍 Part 1: March 5–7, 2026 — In Person in Port Jefferson, NY
💻 Part 2: April 16–18, 2026 — Live via Zoom
💰 Cost: $1459
🎓 Earn 40 General CEUs (+ 10 required consultation hours after training, not included)

💜 NY Mental Health Clinicians: EMDRIA is an approved CEU provider in New York State—you’ll receive credit for your continuing education!

📅 Register before October 31st to save $100!
📩 Payment plans available — email Contact@CentralFloridaEMDRTraining.com

11/28/2025

✨ Therapy for Creatives, Sensitives & Deep Feelers ✨

In this video, Julie Stark, LCSW — co-founder of Root & Rise — shares how she blends science + creativity to help clients heal in ways that feel authentic, grounded, and expressive.

Her approach integrates CBT with art, writing, photography, movement, and other creative practices. Because sometimes talking isn’t enough — and the creative mind needs another doorway into clarity and emotional freedom.

Julie understands what it means to feel deeply, think differently, and move through the world with heightened sensitivity. She sees sensitivity as a strength — something that, when channeled with curiosity and compassion, becomes a powerful force for growth.

At Root & Rise, we call this Mental Wealth-Care™:
therapy that builds resilience, identity, emotional clarity, and the capacity to rise into a life that feels meaningful and aligned.

If you’re a creative or someone who feels intensely and is ready for a different kind of therapy, this is for you.
Julie would love to support your work, healing, and self-expression. 💛