Planted Healing

Planted Healing is a full service psychotherapy and psychiatric private practice based in Salt Lake

Planted Healing is a full service psychotherapy private practice based in Salt Lake City, Utah. We offer high-quality and professional psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, teens, couples and families. In a comfortable and serene atmosphere, we provide competent, professional and compassionate care and offer a highly personalized approach tailored to your individual needs. All of our providers are licensed by the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. We are committed to providing you with the best available mental health and medication management care. Planted Healing is conveniently located in Sugarhouse, central to the greater Salt Lake area.

11/13/2025

I wanted to share this beautiful book with you today. I had a little break between clients and thought I might read a story. 💚

Who I Am: Words I Tell Myself by Susan Verde, with art by Peter H. Reynolds, is a companion to the beloved I Am series — and it’s just as heart-filling and affirming. 🌿

It’s a gentle reminder of how powerful our inner voice can be. The words we tell ourselves matter — they can ground us, comfort us, and help us reframe discouraging or unhelpful thoughts into ones that nurture growth and confidence.

At PLAE Therapy, we love finding small, meaningful tools like this that help children (and all of us) build emotional awareness and self-kindness.

11/11/2025

Supporting Children (and Ourselves) Through Seasonal Mood Shifts 🍂💚

As the seasons change, so does the rhythm of our homes, our energy, and our emotions. Just like adults, children can feel these shifts—sometimes deeply. Shorter days, colder weather, and less sunlight can affect mood, motivation, and even how our bodies process energy.

For some, these changes bring a natural slowing down. For others, the darker months can bring sadness, irritability, or withdrawal. These are normal responses to seasonal change—signals that our minds and bodies may need a little extra care. 🌿💗

At PLAE Therapy, we remind families that emotional and physical wellness are connected. Small, intentional shifts can help everyone move through this season with steadiness and compassion.

Ways to Ease the Impact of Seasonal Change:
🌿 Adjust routines.
Allow slower mornings, cozy downtime, and flexible rhythms that align with your family’s current energy.

💚 Nourish differently.
Warm, grounding foods like soups, roasted vegetables, and hearty grains can help stabilize energy and mood.

🌿 Seek light and movement.
Open blinds, get outside when you can, or move together indoors—light and activity support emotional regulation.

💗 Normalize emotional shifts.
Talk openly about how moods change with the seasons to help children build emotional awareness and self-compassion.

🌿 Create comforting rituals.
Warm drinks, evening candles, soft music, or shared quiet moments help signal safety and calm.

When to Seek Support
If your child shows ongoing sadness, irritability, or withdrawal, it may be time to reach out. Our integrative approach at PLAE Therapy helps children connect their minds and bodies, build awareness, and find balance through all seasons. 💚

Learn more or connect with us at plaetherapy.com 🌿

09/03/2025

PLAE Therapy is an integrative mental health practice for children, adolescents, teens, and young adults. We offer comprehensive support for ages 4-22, helping young people thrive through research-based therapies, integrative care, and expressive therapies.

Our mission is to cultivate children’s confidence, connection, and mental health, guiding them toward a brighter, more empowered future.

Services include:

• Child, Adolescent, & Young Adult Mental Health Therapy
• Neurodevelopmental Evaluations
• Educational Assessments
• Breathwork, Yoga, & Meditation
• Education Liaison & Consultation

We also specialize in evaluations for:
ADD/ADHD - Autism - Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Executive Functioning - Behavioral Issues - Language Learning Disabilities - Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities - Working Memory - Unmotivated Children - Gray Area Concerns

Visit www.plaetherapy.com to learn more about our services and meet our amazing providers!

07/23/2025

Exploring New Places: Shifting Perspective for Mental Clarity

Exploration is a powerful and often overlooked tool for mental health.
It invites curiosity, breaks patterns, and reconnects us to wonder. Whether we’re exploring places, emotions, relationships, or creativity—exploration creates space for healing, insight, and growth.

Sometimes, a change in scenery can shift your entire inner landscape.
Exploring a new neighborhood, trail, or even taking a different route home can gently interrupt rumination, reduce anxiety, and spark fresh curiosity.

🧠 New environments stimulate the brain in powerful ways, offering perspective and grounding—especially during seasons of emotional heaviness or stagnation.

It doesn’t have to be far or fancy. Sometimes the most healing discoveries happen just down the road.

🌿 A few ways to begin:
– Take a new path on your evening walk
– Visit a local bookstore, café, or park you’ve never been to
– Drive a different way home and notice what’s around you

Let your surroundings shift—and notice what shifts within you.

💚 If you ever feel like support could be helpful—whether through therapy, coaching, or gentle wellness guidance—we’d be honored to walk alongside you.

For adults: www.plantedhealing.com
For children, teens, and young adults: www.plaetherapy.com

07/21/2025

Feeling inspired is one of the most healing emotions we can experience—and yet, it’s often the first to fade when we’re overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck in survival mode.

One of the simplest ways to reconnect with that spark? Make something.

Not for productivity.
Not for perfection.
Just to remind yourself that you’re still here, still feeling, still capable of breathing beauty into the world.

Journal your thoughts. Sketch in the quiet. Try a new recipe. Rearrange a corner of your space. Let the act of creating be the medicine.

Creativity is a nervous system reset. It brings us into the present, offers relief from overthinking, and helps our minds and bodies remember what it feels like to feel alive.

We create not just for the outcome—but for our own restoration.
Let that be enough. 🌿

If you’re struggling to reconnect with inspiration, regulate mood, or feel like yourself again—our team at Planted Healing is always here. We’re a mental health and wellness practice with providers who have immediate openings and a heart for whole-person care.

Visit www.plantedhealing.com to learn more or schedule a session.

07/14/2025

Self-Harm in Teens: What It Can Look Like & How to Talk About It 🌿

As a therapist who has worked across a range of clinical settings—inpatient residential care, state psychiatric hospitals, teen residential care, eating disorder residential treatment, and now in private practice for the past 15 years—I’ve had the opportunity to develop a wide lens for observation, assessment, and awareness.

Most therapists are attuned to many subtle cues at once.

This summer, as I’ve been out in the community with younger humans, I’ve noticed visible signs of self-harm.

Self-harming behaviors don’t always look like what we expect. They can include:

• Persistent skin picking or deep scratching
• Cutting with razors, plastic utensils, or even paper
• Restrictive eating or other disordered patterns used to cope with emotional pain

The common thread? These behaviors often emerge as ways to feel something, release something, or simply survive the weight of what’s going on inside.

What to look for:

• Wearing long sleeves or pants in warm weather
• Unexplained scars, scratches, or bruises
• Withdrawal from family or once-loved activities
• Expressions of shame, emotional numbness, or worthlessness

If you notice these things, the goal isn’t to react with fear—it’s to connect with warmth and curiosity.

Try saying:
💬 “You don’t have to go through hard things alone. I’m here—always.”
💬 “I’ve noticed you’ve seemed overwhelmed lately. I’m not here to judge, just to listen.”

These moments can create powerful openings for healing—and you don’t have to navigate them alone.

💚 At PLAE Therapy, we offer parent coaching, wellness consults, individual therapy, family therapy, and child & teen support. If we can walk with you or your loved one through the process of building safer, more sustainable coping strategies, we’d be honored to be a part of your support system.

Visit www.plaetherapy.com to learn more.

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Address

1336 South 1100 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84106

Telephone

+18012159660

Website

http://www.plantedhealing.com/

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