Mara Acel-Green, L.I.C.S.W.

12/05/2025

Openings for ERP for OCD, EMDR, and Perinatal at Strong Roots Counseling in West Newton and teen openings, 14+, starting in January 2026! These will go quickly.

Here are our current adult openings for telehealth and in-person, with specific openings for:
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
OCD- including ERP
EMDR

We also have testing openings for children, adolescents, and adults up to age 55 starting in January. And, will have a limited number of in-person and telehealth openings for teens in January 2026; we will begin booking those in mid-December. So, if you want to get someone added to the waitlist for teens 14+ now is the time!

For is the list of our current insurances and for referrals, please link here.

Strong Roots Counseling is a mental health practice delivering compassionate treatment to children, adolescents, and adults.

12/04/2025

https://mailchi.mp/8c2bbacf1a32/strong-roots-counseling-december-2025-adolescent-openings-salon-on-intimacy-in-the-perinatal-period-and-more Strong Roots Counseling: December 2025 Adolescent openings, salon on intimacy in the perinatal period, EMDR and ERP openings, and more!

09/22/2025

October Clinician Salon: October 23 from 11:45-1 -

Continuing to celebrate our 10th birthday! Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Strong Roots Counseling offered in-person salons for providers with topics ranging from exploring the clinical implications of race and racism and fertility and infertility for le****ns to pregnancy after loss and special co...

09/03/2025

Check out Strong Roots Counseling's most recent newsletter and join us in welcoming our most recent perinatal fellow, Sarah Reilly, LICSW. https://www.strongrootscounseling.com/src-newsletter

07/07/2025

Strong Roots Counseling is pleased to share we have one additional spot available for our upcoming post-masters perinatal mental health fellowship. Please link here for application information.

Strong Roots Counseling is a mental health practice delivering compassionate treatment to children, adolescents, and adults.

06/16/2025

If you missed this powerful exhibit from Harvard last year, here is another chance to view this incredible project by the resilient sisterhood.

Free | Open to the public In partnership with Resilient Sisterhood Project and Neighborhood Birth Center Join us on June 19th for a powerful panel discussion between Resilient Sisterhood Project and Neighborhood Birth Center on the transformative role of art in racial and social justi

04/17/2025

Strong Roots Counseling has a few more spots available for our upcoming certificate program for the use of CBT for perinatal emotional complications, virtually Tuesday, April 29 and Thursday, May 1.

Strong Roots Counseling is a mental health practice delivering compassionate treatment to children, adolescents, and adults.

03/06/2025

Strong Roots Counseling Celebrates 10 Years! - Learn more here: https://mailchi.mp/7a36eaa86b5b/strong-roots-counseling-celebrates-10-years

03/05/2025

Please join us! https://www.strongrootscounseling.com/professionals

02/28/2025

Strong Roots Counseling opened in March 2015 and we are pleased to announce that we are celebrating our ten year anniversary.

So much has changed since we opened in 2015: we now have eleven providers, two affiliated medication providers, an affiliated acupuncturist who specializes in a range of specialties, including women’s hormonal health, and a much busier office manager! We offer in-person and telehealth services in three languages in addition to English: Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Providers deliver a range of treatment approaches, including: CBT, ERP, EMDR, EFT, and a range of relationship models. Our long-time tester, Dr. Carmela DeCandia, has expanded her testing practice up to age 35. We had our first class of perinatal fellows. And, we have trained fourteen classes of providers in the use of CBT for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. To learn more about what we have been up to, please join our mailing list on our website.

We are thrilled to share that we currently have openings for individual adult clients for a range of diagnoses, both for in-person and telehealth, and we have significantly expanded the insurance offerings from when we opened ten years ago. To schedule an appointment or to learn more about the insurances accepted by Strong Roots Counseling, please go to our website, www.strongrootscounseling.com, and select “contact”. You can also check out our in-network insurances there too.

For any specific questions about Strong Roots Counseling, please contact our director, MaMara Acel-Green, L.I.C.S.W.We look forward to working together.

08/28/2024

https://mailchi.mp/.../strong-roots-counseling-fall... Strong Roots Counseling: fall newsletter including, upcoming certificate program, openings for testing and counseling, a new book on managing anxiety for teens, and more!

08/26/2024

Strong Roots Counseling is excited to announce its next post-Masters CBT Certificate for the use with perinatal emotional complications, virtually, September 17 & 19, 2024. Registration at www.strongrootscounseling.com/professionals.