Ready for Deep Healing? Discover Freedom from
Trauma, Stress, and Depression.
Melanie Palmietto, Owner, LMHC, LPC
Melanie believes trauma and anxiety can have a huge impact on our bodies, thought patterns, relationships, and so much more. You might find yourself feeling overwhelmed, lost in thought, thinking of the worst-case scenarios, and avoiding tasks or responsibilities. Maybe you've been in therapy before or for years and you're now looking for something that can take you deeper into your healing. You're not just looking for coping skills you're looking for trauma resolution. Perhaps you're ready to feel connected to your body, trust yourself, speak your truth, and show up in the world aligned, authentic, and connected. Through our work you will experience being seen, heard, and healed. Your body holds innate wisdom and resilience that we get to tap into together.
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Melanie utilizes somatic experiencing, which is a body based approach to trauma healing, stress reduction, and so much more. You will better understand what your body is communicating to you and gently release what the body has stored from past experiences. This is a collaborative process that fosters safety, connection, understanding, and value.
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Melanie Palmietto, LPC, LMHC and owner of Rooted Healing is a trauma informed licensed mental health counselor. She earned her Bachelors degree in Psychology from Springfield College in Massachusetts and her Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Melanie's previous professional experience includes working at a residential eating disorder treatment center, Partial Hospitalization Program and Intensive Outpatient Program, and private therapy practices. Melanie found her passion working for herself in her outpatient therapy practice specializing in somatic experiencing. Melanie is currently in the advanced stage of her somatic experiencing training and will complete the training in the fall of 2024 as a somatic experiencing practitioner.
Ratesha Berthier, LSCW
This isn’t your first rodeo. You’ve been in therapy for awhile and gained a hefty toolbox of coping skills on your journey. You talk about your problems with your therapist week after week but leave feeling little relief or no relief at all. You’re showing up but you still feel stuck knee deep in feeling hopeless, unworthy, sad, angry, afraid, worried, anxious, resentful, and overwhelmed.
You want therapy to work but it is not leading to the transformation you hope for. You’re tired of the temporary solutions and are beginning to believe that you’re failing at therapy or that therapy is failing you. You’re wondering how much longer it will take for the tide to turn.
Transformation might be closer than you think!
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Hi! I’m Ratesha and I’m an EMDR therapist. EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy can help your mind and body clear out and heal unresolved trauma and the root causes of many types of distress. Since being trained in EMDR in 2017, I have witnessed clients experience profound transformation.
My passion is to help sojourners like you uproot your unwanted habits, behaviors, and head-trash (unhelpful and inaccurate thoughts, beliefs, and self-perceptions) and heal from the inside out so you can truly awaken your whole self. I lean into my authenticity, compassion, empathy, intuition, spirituality, honesty, and humor to co-create your healing space.
I am a New Jersey licensed clinical social worker. I earned my Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice. I earned my Bachelor of Art degree with a major in Psychology from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
I am trained in treating trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, dissociation, attachment and developmental trauma, cultural and racial trauma, and symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression.
If you want a deep and lasting transformation, are ready to truly heal from the inside out, and long to awaken the whole healed you-call to schedule a free consultation!
“Being comfortable in your own skin and having tools that help you relax is a really big deal, but learning how to feel safe with others is revolutionary."
Diane Poole Heller
Our Approach To Therapy
The Somatic Experiencing method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. Somatic Experiencing explores where an individual may be “stuck” in a fight, flight, or freeze response and works with an individual’s natural resilience to move through these “stuck” self-protective responses.
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EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) During an EMDR session, the therapist guides the patient to recall distressing memories while simultaneously providing bilateral sensory input, often through side-to-side eye movements, hand tapping, or auditory tones. This bilateral stimulation is believed to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional impact and associated symptoms.EMDR aims to help individuals process traumatic memories in a way that reduces their power to trigger distressing symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, and anxiety. It's been widely studied and has shown effectiveness in treating PTSD and related conditions, although the exact mechanisms of how it works are still being researched.
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Internal Family Systems focuses on a client's internal “parts” and “Self.” In IFS, the mind is considered to be naturally made up of multiple sub-personalities or families within each individual's mental system.
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Acceptance Commitment Therapy encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them.
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Meditation and Visualizations our brain does not know the difference between something we imagine/visualize and something that is actually happening. Therefore visualizations are a powerful tool that allows the body to complete instinctual self protective responses.
testimonial
“Working with Melanie has been transformative! I used traditional therapy methods for years, but they only managed certain symptoms. After working with Melanie, I no longer have panic attacks, I healed from my traumatic experience, and I actually feel an inner peace and confidence for the first time! I highly recommend working with Melanie and trying somatic experiencing. It is truly life changing!”