Where does health begin?
I believe it begins in the roots — in the fertile soil where all life takes form. When we tend the soil that nourishes us, our roots grow deep. From that depth comes resilience, strength, and steadiness. And when we are well-rooted, we can soften. We can be vulnerable. We can trust that we are supported.
Expanding Roots Integrative Wellness is an integrative therapy practice offering psychotherapy and nature-based healing for individuals and couples seeking deeper resilience and connection.
How deep are your roots?
Where is your fertile ground?
If these questions feel unfamiliar, you are not alone. They did to me, too — not long ago. Learning to tend your inner soil is a process. It takes care, intention, and support.
Expanding Roots is a place to strengthen your foundation and cultivate sustainable well-being. Together, we create an individualized plan that meets the whole of you — mind, body, and spirit. This may include psychotherapy, EMDR, mindfulness skills, yoga, herbalism, nature-based practices, or ceremony. Your care is collaborative and tailored to what truly nourishes you.
Your healing matters. Not only for you, but for your family, your community, and the wider web of life we are part of. We are not separate. When we heal, that healing ripples outward.
Whatever your journey, you are not alone.
find your magic
Our capacity to evolve is earth shattering. Like tree roots that can sneak into the cracks and break apart concrete and rock, we too can break through whatever old limiting paradigms are holding us back. You reaching out for therapy means there is a crack where the light is getting through. I believe fully in the human capacity to heal and grow, and would be honored to support you on your journey.
heal, evolve, grow
We work with individuals, couples & Groups
choose your path
Therapy, whether individually or in relationship, is ultimately a moment to say yes to a greater understanding of you. Rarely do we take the time to really focus on ourselves in this busy world we live in. Rarely do we slow down enough to feel what we are feeling or fully embrace the moment we are in.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
The offerings
Individual Therapy
Therapy is ultimately a place to uncover the patterns that are no longer serving you so you can step into a more wise and authentic version of yourself. Together we will add lightness and love where there has been shadow and pain.
nature-BASED therapy
We interact with our environment every day. Our ecological relationships include our relationship to where we live, where we work, whom we spend our time with, our relationship with ourselves, and our relationship with the earth.
Group Therapy
Being a part of a group nurtures the soul in so many ways. It will help you find your voice, gain confidence, build community, reduce stress, and help you feel supported and seen in your journey.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Angela offers clinical supervision as well as consultation groups to support other practitioners in their journeys as therapists. Individual supervision is offered for LPC’s and/or LPC candidates.
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.”
Your therapist
angela merrill
The wisdom is already within you. My role is to help you access it, strengthen your roots, and create lasting, sustainable change. I believe fully in the human capacity to heal, and would be honored to support you on your journey of finding true contentment and joy in your life.
find your path to contentment and joy
