Strong Roots Counseling

02/10/2026

Strong Roots Counseling staff enjoyed a relaxing meta painting class with Ariel shoemaker and Available Works by AFS Mosaics and Mosaics By Ariel. What a joy to spend time together and to create art.

01/28/2026

Strong Roots Counseling will host its next CBT Certificate for post-Master's professionals focusing on the use of CBT for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders on March 24 & 26 (virtually). Course counts towards advanced training for PMH-C. Register for your seat now!https://www.strongrootscounseling.com/_files/ugd/67f9ba_ae3635a6cb014588877d9ad6f4c6ae4f.pdf

12/10/2025

Please join Strong Roots Counseling this March for an amazing clinician salon focusing on I-CBT for the treatment of OCD. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrchbq4Dws9AgGehJT29SAsAvEsYaM4BVQX1RwgN355zmK6A/viewform?usp=header

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.

09/22/2025

October Clinician Salon: October 23 from 11:45-1 - https://mailchi.mp/ed48f4f29bfc/october-clinician-salon-october-23-from-1145-1

09/03/2025

SRC Fall Newsletter: Welcoming our new perinatal fellow - https://mailchi.mp/d2443bbbede9/src-fall-newsletter-welcoming-our-new-perinatal-fellow

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.

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.

04/16/2025

Strong Roots Counseling staff celebrated ten years Pottery with a purpose (www.facebook.com/potterywithapurpose/)
in Needham MA. Love celebrating with our team!

03/06/2025

Strong Roots Counseling Celebrates 10 Years! - 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, Mara Acel-Green, L.I.C.S.W. We look forward to working together.