Take Root Counseling & Coaching

05/07/2026

Announcing... Tara Thomas is now in-network with Aetna in South Carolina for in-person & virtual sessions and with Aetna & BCBS in North Carolina for virtual sessions.

Tara has new openings for couples, individuals, and children 0 and up.

Tara specializes in:

Trauma & PTSD
Anxiety, Depression, & Grief
Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ folks
Body image concerns and eating disorders
Works from an anti-oppressive lens
Supporting people of color, women, & children

Email tara@takerootpllc.com to schedule or access the Take Root contact form here: https://www.takerootcounselingandcoaching.com/contact/

05/05/2026

This month’s Take Root Blog by clinician Banks Clark explores perfectionism and ACT:
There is a common assumption in mental health, and in our culture more broadly, that if we can understand ourselves well enough, think differently enough, or become disciplined enough, we will naturally begin living differently. And yet, in both my own life and clinical work, this assumption often falls short. Even with abundant intelligence, insight, and genuine self-awareness, some patterns in our lives can feel remarkably resilient and fixed in place despite our best efforts to understand them. Keep reading here: https://www.takerootcounselingandcoaching.com/perfectionism-and-act/

04/29/2026

Want to start therapy but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered. ✨ Stay until the end of the video for graphics you can screenshot to use when talking to a new potential therapist!

04/29/2026

Megan recently completed her somatic fellowship AND has added to her therapy skills by completing our somatic meal coaching training. Megan is excited to work alongside clients to help them accomplish their recovery goals with food. Maybe you’re struggling with breakfast, need to add variety to your snacks or just want to find ways to feel more settled as you eat. Megan is here for you! She has spaces for new clients as primary therapist or can work as an adjunct meal coaching therapist with your current team. Take Root has a clear, specific and nervous system informed method for helping you meet your recovery goals with meal coaching!🌱✨

04/27/2026

We enjoyed a morning of creativity, coffee, and connection with our interns and associates community last Friday! We swapped business cards and decorated a pouch to keep them in with fabric markers and fun iron-on patches. Thank you to everyone who attended! It was truly a memorable morning and uplifting way to head into the weekend ☕️ ✨🍩🌱

04/22/2026

Meet the Take Root team, kiddo edition 🌱✨🌱

04/21/2026

Happy Anniversary to Megan!! Megan completed our Somatic Fellowship over her first year with Take Root and completed extensive training with The Embodied Recovery Institute to learn about trauma-informed, somatic and attachment based interventions for providing treatment to individuals with eating disorders. Megan is a deeply curious and thoughtfully attuned clinician who meets her clients with warmth and acceptance while coming alongside them in their individual hopes and goals for living the lives they want. We are so happy you’re on our team! ✨🌱✨

04/20/2026

Congratulations to Megan Medfisch and Lauren Kenney for completing a transformative year in Take Root’s Somatic Fellowship. These phenomenal humans and therapists have developed their resourcing, deepened their wisdom and increased their capacity for attuned curiosity. Many thanks to for the incredible training and expansive experience. We are proud of our fellowship and excited about providing deeply individualized care that invites the body and nervous system to the table.

04/16/2026

Take Root is hosting “Planting Connections with New Therapists & Dietitians” on Friday, April 24th from 10 am - 12 pm at the Take Root office (102 New Edition Ct., Cary, NC 27511)! This is an opportunity for intern or associate therapists and intern or new dietitians (who’ve become licensed in the past three years) to meet and network. We’ll also be making a coin purse craft for folks to put collected business cards in! Please consider joining us and/or passing along the event details to folks who might be interested.

If you are an intern/associate yourself, please RSVP using this Eventbrite link: bit.ly/4qi4qkS

04/14/2026

We were honored to be a platinum sponsor for The Alliances Rally for Recovery last weekend. In a culture where it feels increasingly that intentional shrinking of one’s body is back in style, and every other ad is for a product encouraging weight loss, it can feel a little harder to muster the words “Not one more.” Because we know that statistically, pursuing weight loss increases the risk of eating disorders. This weekend was a reminder that we can and should, proudly, continue to shout “Not one more” as hope for more appropriate and attuned treatment to be offered to all of those with eating disorders, so that not one more life is lost and so that fewer and fewer precious moments of life are destroyed. It is deeply powerful to be in community with those who are on this journey of recovery. I am honored to be one of you, and Take Root is proud to support you. Many, Many thanks to McCall and Southern Smash and to the amazing organizing committee for creating this opportunity to celebrate recovery together.

04/10/2026