Rooted Lancaster LLC

06/01/2025

🌿 Remembering that the first Pride was a riot, not just a party. Holding the tension for the progress that's been made and the ongoing threat to the LGBTQA+ community, particularly under authoritarian politics. Recognizing that rainbow washing and corporate greed has made it incredibly commercialized to support the Q***r community for the month of June while inhibiting progress silently in the background. Acknowledging access to healthcare continues to grow more limited in 2025 for trans folks and humans across the gender diversity spectrum. Knowing that the LGBTQA community is more likely to face barriers to mental health care and has been historically traumatized by the mental health industrial complex....all while facing high rates of depression, anxiety, and even suicidal ideation.

🌿 We will continue to strive to provide a welcoming and calming space for all, but specifically for those have histories of struggling to find spaces that see who they are without pathologizing or spiritualizing their identities and world views. We have been providing affirming care at Rooted Lancaster LLC since our beginning in 2020. Prior to Rooted, we have worked with the whole spectrum of identities from central PA to NYC, and we are specifically educated on human sexuality, intersectionality, and diversity of identities for now over 15 years.

🌿 Affirming mental healthcare is just a piece of progress. Those who are white, cisgender, straight passing, with financial privilege need to use their energy to advocate for continued legal protections, services, and policies that support that everyone exist safety in our communities. This year, we are asking folks to check out and support their local organizations as our local communities will become more and more important. Locally, we have
Who hosts events and provides connections to services, including a food pantry for our local Lancaster community.

Remember that the spirit Pride...is year round. Do something this year to support your community 🏳️‍🌈🌈✌️

05/06/2025

🌿 Come grow with us! Contact us via email for more details. Options to meet in person or virtually!

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04/17/2025

🌱 We've heard the worry. Our local healthcare workers can continue to grow with us!

04/12/2025

🌱 We know this week has been stressful for so many. A few weeks ago, we attended a conference for therapists, and we were reminded that the basics are BACK. In fact, they never left. Quality sleep, mindfulness, physical movement, and reducing time on screens are the foundation for regulating our nervous system and reducing stress.

🌱 While 30 mins of daily movement is the recommendation, can you start with a 10 minute walk? Can you do a 3 minute mindfulness from Insight Timer (our personal favorite)? Can you read a book before bedtime instead of scrolling? These little habits add up!

🌱 It's never a bad time to get in touch with a therapist to start regularly focusing on your self care. We can help with stress management routines and problem solving how to manage the ongoing stressors in your life. You don't need to have experienced a trauma or crisis to reach out. We love empowering people to engage in preventive mental health care. Special shoutout to all the medical professionals that prioritize their mental health and ward off burnout, we love to see you. 🌺

Whether you work in a high burnout field or just want to stay on top of your emotional well-being, we are here when you're ready.

04/10/2025

Accepting new clients for daytime hours. We have in person and virtual availability. Email info@rootedlancaster.com to inquire.

Rooted Lancaster LLC is a women owned mental health private practice that emphasizes inclusion and diversity. Offerings include couples counseling, trauma therapy, EMDR, and individual therapy for anxiety, stress, and life transitions .

03/29/2025

🌱 When men and young boys don't have spaces and cultural role models that portray healthy masculinity, they can find community in regressive groups that perpetuate dominance seeking and violence. Boys and men suffer from depression and anxiety as well as struggle with social connections. We know that healthy male role models and emotionally safe fathers have many associated positive outcomes. You don't have to emotionally suffer just because you're a male.

🌱 There's a lot we can do! If you're a parent, pay attention to your kid. Teens especially need parents to actively parent even when their emotional state is less than enthusiastic. Our young people's brains are not developed. They need guidance on developing critical thinking and emotional regulation skills. A parent can only take their child as far as they've explored themselves.

🌱 Adult men! What are you doing to learn about yourself and how your brain works? What pain are you ignoring? What relationships are you avoiding tending to? What feelings are you drinking, smoking, or working to avoid? Therapy is for guys, too, and we will be here when you're ready to take the leap.

We need men in our communities who aren't afraid to do the emotional work more now than ever. This is a call to show up.

03/27/2025

Accepting new clients for daytime hours. We have both in person and virtual availability. Email info@rootedlancaster.com to inquire.

Dana Hampton - Rooted Lancaster LLC, Licensed Professional Counselor, Lancaster, PA, 17602, (223) 218-2462, Feeling stuck in life? Hesitant about therapy? At Rooted Lancaster LLC, we believe all people have the ability to heal and have the strength to overcome what life throws at us. Rooted Lancaste...

03/22/2025

🌱 We know there's a lot of issues when it comes to access to quality mental health therapy AND big tech/ venture capitalists are destroying our field under the guise of improving accessibility. The big box companies increase cost and have poorer care for clients.

🌱 If you have the privilege of choice, please choose to support your independent and small business therapists. Most all providers offer virtual services & can see anyone across the state. Many small businesses do accept health insurance. is a directory of options if you are looking for low cost out of pocket therapy services in the case of not having insurance coverage.

02/25/2025

🌱 There's a lot of hype about "healing our nervous system" online. Yes, our nervous systems are super important, especially these days. However, "healing" language can sometimes force rigid ideas about perfectionism and achievement onto our growth process.

🌱 Instead, consider what supports your felt sense of your body, aka how do you feel connected to your body? What practice or in what moments do you feel more grounded or resourced? What gives you a sense of peace or ease? Can you practice a few of these strategies for a few minutes today to feel more Rooted?

02/22/2025

🌱 There's no perfect time to address your wounds, but there's not a worst time either. What if changing the world starts with changing the relationship we have with ourselves and how we show up?

When you're ready, we will be here. We all deserve to grow.

02/16/2025

🌿 Folks with anxiety, neurodivergence, and trauma may find themselves too anxious or frozen to act despite wanting to speak out. In addition, some forms of activism may not be accessible to all bodies and minds. For those who want their voices to be heard and need some support with how to do that, we recommend 5 Calls and Resist Bot. 5 Calls pulls up your representatives contact information and provides scripts for certain topics. You can always call and leave a voicemail. Resist Bot helps you send emails, letters, and sign petitions about issues you care about. Small actions across large numbers over time add up. Do what you can.

We believe in a country where we all can thrive. 🇺🇲

https://resist.bot/petitions
https://5calls.org/