We are honored to share that Rooted Therapies has been named the 2026 Best of North Port for Mental Health Therapy, marking the second consecutive year our practice has received this recognition.
After being named Best of North Port for Mental Health Therapy in 2025, receiving this honor again in 2026 is especially meaningful. It reflects something we value deeply: the continued trust of the North Port community we have been fortunate to serve since 2018.
For us, this recognition is about far more than an award.
It is a reminder of where Rooted Therapies began, why it was created, and the people and families who have allowed us to be part of some of the most important chapters of their lives.
A Vision for Mental Health Counseling in North Port
When Rooted Therapies began in 2018, there was a clear and growing need for compassionate, high-quality mental health counseling in North Port, Florida.
Our community was growing quickly, but many individuals, couples, children, teenagers, and families were still struggling to find meaningful mental health support close to home.
The vision for Rooted Therapies was to create something different.
A place where people did not feel like a number.
A place where therapy went beyond simply managing symptoms and helped people better understand what was happening beneath the surface.
A place where clients could feel safe enough to be honest, supported enough to do difficult work, and seen as whole people rather than reduced to a diagnosis or rushed through a process.
From the beginning, the vision also extended beyond the therapy room.
Rooted Therapies was created to become a trusted part of the North Port community by supporting local families, collaborating with schools and organizations, providing mental health education, participating in community initiatives, and helping make conversations about emotional health and relationships more approachable.
What began as one vision has grown into a team of therapists and professionals who continue to carry that mission forward.
What Being Named Best of North Port Means to Us
Being recognized as Best of North Port for Mental Health Therapy in both 2025 and 2026 is an incredible honor, but the meaning behind the recognition reaches far beyond our practice.
It represents the person who finally decided to reach out after carrying everything alone.
It represents the couple who chose to keep showing up for their relationship.
It represents the teenager who slowly began to feel safe enough to share what was really happening.
It represents the parent searching for a better way to understand and support their child.
It represents the individual trying to make sense of old wounds, difficult patterns, overwhelming emotions, or a season of life that no longer feels manageable.
Most of all, it represents every person and family who has trusted Rooted Therapies during vulnerable, complicated, and deeply personal seasons of their lives.
That trust is something we will never take lightly.
Therapy That Looks Beneath the Surface
At Rooted Therapies, we believe meaningful healing involves more than simply feeling better for the moment.
Our approach to counseling is trauma-informed, relationship-centered, and focused on helping people understand themselves more deeply.
Therapy may include identifying patterns that continue to show up in relationships, understanding the impact of past experiences, building emotional awareness, strengthening communication, creating healthier boundaries, improving connection, and developing new ways of responding to life’s challenges.
Our North Port therapists work with children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families experiencing a wide range of concerns, including:
- Anxiety and depression
- Trauma and painful past experiences
- Marriage and relationship challenges
- Parenting concerns and family conflict
- Grief and loss
- Stress and major life transitions
- Emotional disconnection
- Difficult relationship patterns
- Feeling overwhelmed or stuck
- Personal growth and greater self-understanding
Rooted Therapies offers in-person counseling in North Port, Florida, as well as telehealth therapy for clients throughout Florida.
Because no two people are the same, we do not believe therapy should feel one-size-fits-all.
Our goal is to meet each client where they are, understand what has shaped them, and help them move toward meaningful and lasting change.
Counseling for Individuals, Couples, Children, Teens, and Families
One of the strengths of Rooted Therapies is the diversity within our clinical team.
Different seasons of life call for different kinds of support. Someone searching for marriage counseling may need something very different from a teenager struggling emotionally, a parent concerned about their child, or an adult beginning to process experiences they have carried for years.
Our therapists bring different areas of training, experience, personality, and clinical focus to the work they do while sharing the same commitment to compassionate, ethical, individualized care.
That allows us to thoughtfully connect clients with a therapist whose experience and approach align with what they are looking for.
Whether someone is searching for an individual therapist in North Port, couples counseling, marriage therapy, counseling for a teenager, child therapy, or family counseling, the first step is helping determine what kind of support may be the best fit.
Growing Alongside the North Port Community
North Port is more than the location of our counseling practice.
It is our home.
Since opening in 2018, Rooted Therapies has grown alongside this community. We have had the privilege of supporting local individuals and families, partnering with schools and community organizations, participating in local events, providing education, and helping create more open conversations around mental health, relationships, trauma, parenting, and emotional wellness.
As Rooted Therapies has expanded, the heart of the original vision has remained the same:
To create a place where people feel safe, seen, supported, and empowered to create meaningful change.
Growth has never been about becoming the largest practice.
It has been about increasing our ability to serve people well.
Thank You, North Port
To everyone who voted for Rooted Therapies, recommended our practice to someone you care about, shared our name within the community, attended one of our events, listened to the Rooted & Restored podcast, read one of our articles, partnered with our team, or supported our work in any way: thank you.
We are especially grateful to our clients.
Because of confidentiality, we may never publicly share the stories of courage, healing, reconciliation, growth, boundary-setting, recovery, and transformation that happen within our walls.
But those stories matter.
Every person who walks through our doors brings a life, a history, relationships, hopes, struggles, and experiences that deserve to be treated with care.
Your willingness to show up, be honest, ask difficult questions, practice something different, and continue doing the work is what gives meaning to everything we do.
Receiving this recognition once was incredibly meaningful.
Receiving it for a second consecutive year reminds us of the need that existed when Rooted Therapies began in 2018, the vision that grew from that need, the team that has helped carry it forward, and the North Port community that continues to trust us.
We are honored to be recognized as the Best of North Port for Mental Health Therapy in 2025 and 2026, and we remain committed to serving North Port and the surrounding communities with compassion, integrity, excellence, and deeply human care.
Looking for a Therapist in North Port, Florida?
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming, especially when you are already carrying something difficult.
You do not have to know exactly what kind of therapy you need before reaching out.
Rooted Therapies offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation with our Intake Coordinator to learn more about what you are looking for, answer questions about our counseling services, and help determine which therapist may be the best fit for you, your child, your relationship, or your family.
We provide individual counseling, couples and marriage counseling, child and teen therapy, and family therapy in North Port, Florida, along with telehealth counseling throughout the state.
Sometimes the next step is not having everything figured out.
Sometimes it is simply being willing to begin the conversation.
You do not have to navigate it alone.
Best of North Port Mental Health Therapy 2026 | Rooted Therapies
