Planted Healing, 1336 South 1100 East, Salt Lake City, UT (2025)

09/03/2025

PLAE Therapy is an integrative mental health practice for children, adolescents, teens, and young adults. We offer comprehensive support for ages 4-22, helping young people thrive through research-based therapies, integrative care, and expressive therapies.

Our mission is to cultivate children’s confidence, connection, and mental health, guiding them toward a brighter, more empowered future.

Services include:

• Child, Adolescent, & Young Adult Mental Health Therapy
• Neurodevelopmental Evaluations
• Educational Assessments
• Breathwork, Yoga, & Meditation
• Education Liaison & Consultation

We also specialize in evaluations for:
ADD/ADHD - Autism - Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Executive Functioning - Behavioral Issues - Language Learning Disabilities - Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities - Working Memory - Unmotivated Children - Gray Area Concerns

Visit www.plaetherapy.com to learn more about our services and meet our amazing providers!

07/23/2025

Exploring New Places: Shifting Perspective for Mental Clarity

Exploration is a powerful and often overlooked tool for mental health.
It invites curiosity, breaks patterns, and reconnects us to wonder. Whether we’re exploring places, emotions, relationships, or creativity—exploration creates space for healing, insight, and growth.

Sometimes, a change in scenery can shift your entire inner landscape.
Exploring a new neighborhood, trail, or even taking a different route home can gently interrupt rumination, reduce anxiety, and spark fresh curiosity.

🧠 New environments stimulate the brain in powerful ways, offering perspective and grounding—especially during seasons of emotional heaviness or stagnation.

It doesn’t have to be far or fancy. Sometimes the most healing discoveries happen just down the road.

🌿 A few ways to begin:
– Take a new path on your evening walk
– Visit a local bookstore, café, or park you’ve never been to
– Drive a different way home and notice what’s around you

Let your surroundings shift—and notice what shifts within you.

💚 If you ever feel like support could be helpful—whether through therapy, coaching, or gentle wellness guidance—we’d be honored to walk alongside you.

For adults: www.plantedhealing.com
For children, teens, and young adults: www.plaetherapy.com

07/21/2025

Feeling inspired is one of the most healing emotions we can experience—and yet, it’s often the first to fade when we’re overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck in survival mode.

One of the simplest ways to reconnect with that spark? Make something.

Not for productivity.
Not for perfection.
Just to remind yourself that you’re still here, still feeling, still capable of breathing beauty into the world.

Journal your thoughts. Sketch in the quiet. Try a new recipe. Rearrange a corner of your space. Let the act of creating be the medicine.

Creativity is a nervous system reset. It brings us into the present, offers relief from overthinking, and helps our minds and bodies remember what it feels like to feel alive.

We create not just for the outcome—but for our own restoration.
Let that be enough. 🌿

If you’re struggling to reconnect with inspiration, regulate mood, or feel like yourself again—our team at Planted Healing is always here. We’re a mental health and wellness practice with providers who have immediate openings and a heart for whole-person care.

Visit www.plantedhealing.com to learn more or schedule a session.

07/14/2025

Self-Harm in Teens: What It Can Look Like & How to Talk About It 🌿

As a therapist who has worked across a range of clinical settings—inpatient residential care, state psychiatric hospitals, teen residential care, eating disorder residential treatment, and now in private practice for the past 15 years—I’ve had the opportunity to develop a wide lens for observation, assessment, and awareness.

Most therapists are attuned to many subtle cues at once.

This summer, as I’ve been out in the community with younger humans, I’ve noticed visible signs of self-harm.

Self-harming behaviors don’t always look like what we expect. They can include:

• Persistent skin picking or deep scratching
• Cutting with razors, plastic utensils, or even paper
• Restrictive eating or other disordered patterns used to cope with emotional pain

The common thread? These behaviors often emerge as ways to feel something, release something, or simply survive the weight of what’s going on inside.

What to look for:

• Wearing long sleeves or pants in warm weather
• Unexplained scars, scratches, or bruises
• Withdrawal from family or once-loved activities
• Expressions of shame, emotional numbness, or worthlessness

If you notice these things, the goal isn’t to react with fear—it’s to connect with warmth and curiosity.

Try saying:
💬 “You don’t have to go through hard things alone. I’m here—always.”
💬 “I’ve noticed you’ve seemed overwhelmed lately. I’m not here to judge, just to listen.”

These moments can create powerful openings for healing—and you don’t have to navigate them alone.

💚 At PLAE Therapy, we offer parent coaching, wellness consults, individual therapy, family therapy, and child & teen support. If we can walk with you or your loved one through the process of building safer, more sustainable coping strategies, we’d be honored to be a part of your support system.

Visit www.plaetherapy.com to learn more.

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07/09/2025

Feel Inspired: Let Stillness Speak

In the noise of daily life, inspiration often waits in the quiet moments. In a world that feels increasingly heavy—where humanitarian crises, social tensions, and personal responsibilities can feel overwhelming—nurturing inspiration has never been more important.

We don’t always need to “push through.” Sometimes, the most powerful action we can take is to pause. To let stillness speak. 🌿

Here are a few small ways to reconnect with inspiration when the weight of the world feels too loud:

🍃 Step outside without an agenda. Let the breeze, the clouds, or the sun hit your skin—without rushing to capture it or plan your next move.
🍃 Give yourself permission to do nothing. Rest is not a reward. It’s a reset.
🍃 Limit your inputs. You don’t need to carry every headline. Curate what comes into your space.
🍃 Seek beauty in small things. A cup of tea, a child’s laughter, the way light lands on your floor—these moments matter.
🍃 Protect what inspires you. Make space for it. Prioritize it. Return to it often.

When we make space to breathe, we often remember what we’re here for. And that clarity? That’s where inspiration lives.

If you could use support from a mental health provider or a life and wellness coach, please know we have incredible providers with immediate openings through
🌿 www.plantedhealing.com for adults
🌿 www.plaetherapy.com for children and teens

07/05/2025

Simple Ways to Connect with Your Teen This Summer 💚🌿

Summer can be a powerful time to slow down and reconnect—especially with your teen. Even small moments can build trust, strengthen your bond, and support their emotional well-being.

Here are a few simple ways to connect:
✨ Invite them on a walk or drive with no agenda
🍦 Grab a treat together—ice cream, smoothies, or their favorite snack
🎧 Listen to music they love (and ask what it means to them)
📚 Watch a show or read a book together and talk about it
📝 Ask open-ended questions—then really listen

Connection doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s the presence and consistency that matter most. 🌿

If you could use support in connecting more deeply with your teen—or navigating parenting during these growing years—we’d love to support you. Visit www.plaetherapy.com to learn more. 💚

07/05/2025

Simple Ways to Connect with Your Teen This Summer 💚🌿

Summer can be a powerful time to slow down and reconnect—especially with your teen. Even small moments can build trust, strengthen your bond, and support their emotional well-being.

Here are a few simple ways to connect:
✨ Invite them on a walk or drive with no agenda
🍦 Grab a treat together—ice cream, smoothies, or their favorite snack
🎧 Listen to music they love (and ask what it means to them)
📚 Watch a show or read a book together and talk about it
📝 Ask open-ended questions—then really listen

Connection doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s the presence and consistency that matter most.

07/05/2025

A Great Book to Spark Conversations About Acceptance, Inclusivity, and Celebrating All Bodies 💚🌿

During a visit to the library this past week with my family, I came across a gem of a book: Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder. It was such a fun and meaningful read—celebrating all the beautiful ways bodies can look, move, and show up in the world.

From different shapes and skin tones to varying abilities, freckles, birthmarks, and everything in between—this book is a joyful reminder that every body is worthy, valuable, and cool just as it is.

At PLAE Therapy, we believe in building emotional literacy and social awareness through play and storytime. Books like this open the door for powerful conversations about inclusivity, kindness, and acceptance—helping children grow into more compassionate, self-aware humans.

Learning to appreciate and validate the differences in others also helps children build stronger self-esteem. When children see that all bodies are worthy of love and respect, they begin to internalize that truth for themselves—especially as they navigate body changes, growth, and development. 🌿💚

This is a wonderful resource for families hoping to raise children who embrace difference, show empathy, and celebrate all people—and all bodies.

07/05/2025

Joyful Summers Come in All Shapes—Make Yours Fit You and Your Family 💚🌿

Summer doesn’t have to look one specific way to be meaningful. It can be loud and adventurous, quiet and cozy, near or far, structured or spontaneous. What matters most is that it fits you and your family.

Mental health and balance don’t take a break during summer—if anything, they become even more essential. Whether it’s travel abroad, backyard bubbles, splash pads, or slow mornings in pajamas, the experience is what counts.

Give yourself permission to create a summer rhythm that honors your and your family’s needs, energy, and joy. 🌿

Here’s your reminder:
Joyful summers come in all shapes—make yours fit you and your family. 💚

07/04/2025

Celebrating Abbi & Her Growing Family

This week, we gathered with some of our PLAE family to celebrate our beloved therapist, Abbi, as she prepares to welcome a new baby. Her warmth, wisdom, and care are such a gift to our community, and while we’ll miss her deeply while she’s out, we’re also so excited for this next chapter.

At PLAE, we wholeheartedly encourage rest, self-care, and intuitive healing—not just for our clients, but for our providers too. We’re cheering Abbi on as she embraces this season, and we can’t wait to meet her little one when the time comes. 💚🌿

07/03/2025

Helping Kids Navigate Big Emotions 💚🌿

We’re so excited to kick off our Children’s Summer Emotional Regulation Group next Wednesday, July 9th — and even more excited to welcome in the incredible Grace Miller, MSW, CSW as the group facilitator.

Grace brings warmth, wisdom, and a deeply thoughtful approach to her work. With a background as a Licensed Early Elementary Educator, Grace understands kids in a truly unique way. Her transition into mental health was rooted in her desire to support the emotional well-being of children and families more deeply — and it shows in every interaction.

As a certified yoga practitioner and trauma-informed therapist, Grace brings a mind-body lens to emotional regulation, helping children feel safe, seen, and empowered. Her groups are filled with connection, learning, and gentle, playful support — where every child is invited to grow.

Group meets weekly from 4–5 PM on Wednesdays, July 9th– 30th.

We can’t wait to welcome your child into this special summer offering.
To register, visit www.plaetherapy.com or message us directly.

🌿💚

07/02/2025

Grief Is Not Linear and Often Moves in Waves

Grief moves in waves—sometimes crashing, sometimes quietly lapping at the edges of your day. It doesn’t arrive on a schedule or follow a neat path. One moment may feel light, even peaceful. The next, you’re suddenly back in the ache of it, overwhelmed by a memory or undone by a quiet moment.

You may feel sadness, anger, guilt, confusion—or all of it at once. These aren’t stages to complete. They’re the language of love and loss, and they show up in their own time.

At Planted Healing, we often remind our community that grief is not something to “get over.” It’s something to carry, to honor, and to tend to with care. And while no one can walk your path for you, you don’t have to walk it alone.

Caring for your mental health through grief might look like:
— Letting yourself rest, even when the world keeps moving
— Reaching out to a therapist who can hold space without rushing your process
— Naming what you feel, even when it’s messy
— Nourishing your body, slowly and gently
— Creating small rituals that bring grounding or meaning
— Allowing joy and sorrow to exist side by side

We understand that many are navigating the weight of grief and loss—sometimes silently, sometimes with more questions than answers. At Planted Healing, our trauma-informed therapists offer compassionate, supportive care for those in the thick of it. We currently have immediate openings and can be reached at www.plantedhealing.com to help you get started whenever you’re ready.

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