Planted Healing

Planted Healing is a full service psychotherapy and psychiatric private practice based in Salt Lake

Planted Healing is a full service psychotherapy private practice based in Salt Lake City, Utah. We offer high-quality and professional psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, teens, couples and families. In a comfortable and serene atmosphere, we provide competent, professional and compassionate care and offer a highly personalized approach tailored to your individual needs. All of our providers are licensed by the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. We are committed to providing you with the best available mental health and medication management care. Planted Healing is conveniently located in Sugarhouse, central to the greater Salt Lake area.

01/02/2026

Sensory & Self-Regulation Play: Cozy Crafts for Home

Looking for a fun, creative way to connect with your littles in the last days of winter break? Here’s one we loved revisiting and sharing again together—Kool-Aid Play-Doh 🌈

This was a childhood favorite I used to make with my mom (very 80s style 💫). She later made it with my own children when they were little, and this winter break we had so much fun making it again altogether.

Why we love it:
• Bright colors + fruity scents
• Simple, affordable ingredients
• Kid-friendly and customizable
• A beautiful sensory and regulation activity

Our simple recipe:
• 2½ cups flour
• ½ cup salt
• 3 Kool-Aid packets
• 2 cups boiling water (adult step)
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil

How to make it:
Mix flour, salt, and Kool-Aid in a large bowl. Stir in oil and slowly add boiling water while mixing. Knead dough until smooth.

💚 Why it matters:
Sensory play supports self-regulation and emotional expression. The warmth of the Play-Doh as it comes together is deeply comforting and soothing, helping kids feel grounded while creating a beautiful moment of connection as they bring all the pieces together.

Simple. Sensory. Meaningful. 🌿💚

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01/02/2026

Follow-up from yesterday 💚

Sharing our little homemade Celebration Cake was such a joy. Hearing what everyone felt proud of—and naming their accomplishments—was powerful. Our cake could barely hold all the reflections. Every step became an opportunity to connect, slow down, and bring it all together.

If you made a Celebration Cake, we would love to see it ✨
Please tag us and share your photos!

Below is a simple, quick outline to make one of your own:

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✨ Ways to Celebrate Our Wins

A confidence-building winter break activity for kids

As the new year begins, we often rush into goals and resolutions. Taking time to reflect on the year behind us is just as important—especially for children.

The 2025 Celebration Cake helps kids recognize their growth, resilience, and accomplishments—big and small.

How it works:
• Make and decorate a cake 🍰 together
(Cupcakes, brownies, or even fruit work too 🌿)
• Everyone reflects on something they’re proud of from 2025
• Swipe left to see the template we created (print if you’d like)
• Write your reflection, tape it to a skewer so it stands tall
• Share it out loud and place it into the cake

The result:
A cake filled with visible reminders of effort, growth, resilience, and love 💚

Why this matters:
Celebrating wins builds self-esteem, emotional awareness, and connection. Helping children notice what they’ve done well is just as meaningful as setting goals for what’s next.

We’ll be sharing our 2025 Celebration Cake tomorrow—but wanted to offer this now in case you’d like to create one with your little ones.

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01/01/2026

✨ Ways to Celebrate Our Wins: A Confidence-Building Winter Break Activity for Kids ✨

As the new year begins, we often rush into goals and resolutions. But taking time to reflect on the year that’s ending is just as important—especially for children.

The 2025 Celebration Cake is a fun, meaningful way to help kids recognize their strengths, growth, and accomplishments—big and small.

How it works:
• Make and decorate a cake 🍰 together (or use cupcakes, brownies, or even fruit—anything works 🌿)
• Everyone reflects on something they’re proud of from 2025
• Swipe left to see the template we created—cut it out if you’d like to print the same one we used
• Write your reflection down, tape it to a skewer so it sits high, and share it out loud
• Place the skewer into the cake to complete your Celebration Cake

We found a non-GMO cake mix at Whole Foods to keep it friendly along with dye-free sprinkles, but any version is perfect.

The result is a cake filled with visible reminders of resilience, effort, and love.

💚 Why this matters:
Celebrating wins builds self-esteem, emotional awareness, and connection. Helping children recognize their successes is just as valuable as setting goals for what’s ahead.

We’ll be sharing our 2025 Celebration Cake tomorrow, but wanted to share this now in case you’d like to create your own with your little ones.

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12/30/2025

A Back-to-School Reset for Children 🌿

This gentle reset is designed to help children’s bodies and minds transition from holiday fun back into school routines in a calm, supportive way. Through soothing sounds and playful self-regulation activities, children will learn how to notice their feelings, understand body signals, and practice skills that help them feel calmer, more confident, and ready to learn.

📅 Sunday, January 4
⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM
📍 Planted Healing Offices (within Continuum Mind and Body Collaborative)
1336 South 1100 East, Suite 100 | Salt Lake City, UT 84105

What children will learn and benefit from:

• How to calm their bodies when feelings feel big or overwhelming
• Simple breathing and grounding tools they can use at school or home
• Ways to notice body signals like tension, restlessness, or worry
• Skills to manage transitions, frustration, and changes in routine
• Support for emotional regulation, focus, and classroom readiness
• Gentle tools to build confidence and positive connection with peers

What’s included:

Led by Edna Ramos, Melanie D. Davis, LCMHC, and our Child & Teen Mental Health Intern, Viviene, this experience offers a safe, nurturing space for children to pause, reset, and reconnect with a sense of calm and safety.

Children will leave with easy-to-use tools they can practice daily—and a comforting reminder: “I can calm my body. I can try my best.”

Each guest receives a Self-Regulation + Reflection Gift

Registration Fee: $45 per guest | $40 additional sibling registration.

12/30/2025

We are feeling deeply grateful for our entire, incredible PLAE Therapy team—the clinicians, evaluators, collaborators, and support staff who show up every day with heart, integrity, and unwavering commitment to children, teens, young adults, and families.

As we step into 2026, we are so excited for what’s ahead: thoughtful wellness events, continued growth, and the integrative, whole-child care we have offered from day one—rooted in the shared belief that children, teens, young adults, and families deserve care that honors their minds, physical wellness, relationships, and their unique ways of being in the world.

✨ What we do at PLAE Therapy
We offer Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, Teens, and Young Adults (ages 4–22) through research-based therapies, integrative care, expressive modalities, and play.

Our mission:
To cultivate children’s confidence, connection, and mental health through effective, research-based mental health therapies, integrative care, expressive therapies, and play.

Our services include:
• Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Mental Health Therapy
• Neurodevelopment Evaluations
• Educational Assessments
• Breathwork, Yoga & Meditation
• Education Liaison Services
• Consultation

Areas of evaluation include:
ADD/ADHD • Autism • Neurodevelopmental Disorders • Executive Functioning • Behavioral Concerns • Language Learning Disabilities • Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities • Working Memory • Motivation Challenges • Gray-area concerns

We are honored to walk alongside families and to work within a collaborative, compassionate community that centers growth, regulation, and belonging—for every child and teen we serve. 💚

🌿 Explore our services and meet our amazing providers:
👉 www.plaetherapy.com

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12/28/2025

PLAE offers Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, Teens, and Young Adults ages 4-22!

Explore www.plaetherapy.com to learn more about our services and amazing providers.

Our mission is to cultivate children’s confidence, connection, and mental health through effective, research-based mental health therapies, integrative care, expressive therapies, and play.

Our services include:
- Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Mental Health Therapy
- Neurodevelopment Evaluations
- Educational Assessments
- Breathwork, Yoga & Meditation
- Education Liaison
- Consultation

Areas of evaluation: ADD/ADHD - Autism - Neuro Disorders - Executive Functions - Behavioral Issues - Language Learning Disabilities - Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities - Working Memory - Unmotivated Children - Gray Area Concerns

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12/04/2025

At PLAE Therapy, we love every opportunity to connect with our community — and last night was truly something special. Two of our incredible providers, as well as myself, joined a wonderful group of first-grade parents for their community-builder event… hosted inside a locally owned Utah brewery (owned by one of the parents). It was our first-ever children’s mental health event in a brewery 😉 and we absolutely loved supporting a small business while sharing space with such an engaged, warm parent community.

We were invited to talk about self-advocacy for young children, emotional scripts that help kids navigate social situations, understanding helicopter parenting, and ways to support emotional regulation at home. And honestly, the night wouldn’t have been what it was without Grace and Davey.

Grace brings a magic all her own — eight years as an elementary school teacher before becoming a therapist, bilingual in English and Spanish, gentle, intentional, and deeply attuned to how children learn and feel. Watching her support families reminds me why blending education and clinical skill is so powerful for little ones.

And then there’s Davey — a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over a decade in Salt Lake’s school communities, fluent in three languages, fiercely compassionate, and a steady advocate for kids, teens, and families. He has a way of making every parent feel seen and every child feel safe. His cultural awareness, clinical expertise, and heart-centered approach show up in everything he does.

Standing beside these two last night, listening to them engage with families, was such a reminder of how grateful I am to have them on our PLAE Therapy team.

We’re so thankful to the Rowland Hall families for welcoming us with warmth, curiosity, and openness. What a beautiful night of connection. 🌿💚

12/04/2025

We were invited by the incredible first-grade parents at Rowland Hall to join their community-builder event, hosted inside a locally owned Utah brewery run by one of their amazing parents and school teachers.

At PLAE Therapy, we love every opportunity to connect with our community — and last night was truly special.

It was absolutely fantastic to support a small local business while having such meaningful, insightful conversations with families.

Together, we explored self-advocacy for young children, emotional scripts that help kids navigate social settings, the impacts of helicopter parenting, and practical ways to support emotional growth in everyday routines. These conversations are the heart of why we love community work—education gives parents tools, confidence, and connection, and helps children feel truly seen and supported.

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Below are some of the key areas that mental health providers and child & family therapists can educate on and help support within families:
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)
• Behavior regulation
• Supportive parenting scripts
• Neurodiversity
• Trauma-informed care
• Play + expressive arts therapy
• Early signs of emotional or developmental concerns
• Social skills + friendships
• Coping skills for school + life transitions
• Sensory needs + emotional overload
• Strengthening family communication + routines

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If we can ever be of support, please reach out anytime.
💚 www.plaetherapy.com

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12/04/2025

At PLAE Therapy, we love every opportunity to connect with our community. Over the past month, our team joined several amazing schools and parent groups across Salt Lake for meaningful conversations about children’s mental health and development.

We explored ways to strengthen children’s emotional intelligence (EQ), supportive parenting scripts, understanding behavioral cues, and simple strategies families can use to create calmer, more connected homes. Education and awareness give parents powerful tools in their back pocket and help children feel seen and supported.

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Below are some of the areas that mental health providers and child & family therapists can educate on and help support within families:
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)
• Behavior regulation
• Supportive parenting scripts
• Neurodiversity
• Trauma-informed care
• Play + expressive arts therapy
• Early signs of emotional or developmental concerns
• Social skills + friendships
• Coping skills for school + life transitions
• Sensory needs + emotional overload
• Strengthening family communication + routines

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If we can ever be of support, please reach out anytime.
💚 www.plaetherapy.com

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11/13/2025

I wanted to share this beautiful book with you today. I had a little break between clients and thought I might read a story. 💚

Who I Am: Words I Tell Myself by Susan Verde, with art by Peter H. Reynolds, is a companion to the beloved I Am series — and it’s just as heart-filling and affirming. 🌿

It’s a gentle reminder of how powerful our inner voice can be. The words we tell ourselves matter — they can ground us, comfort us, and help us reframe discouraging or unhelpful thoughts into ones that nurture growth and confidence.

At PLAE Therapy, we love finding small, meaningful tools like this that help children (and all of us) build emotional awareness and self-kindness.

11/11/2025

Supporting Children (and Ourselves) Through Seasonal Mood Shifts 🍂💚

As the seasons change, so does the rhythm of our homes, our energy, and our emotions. Just like adults, children can feel these shifts—sometimes deeply. Shorter days, colder weather, and less sunlight can affect mood, motivation, and even how our bodies process energy.

For some, these changes bring a natural slowing down. For others, the darker months can bring sadness, irritability, or withdrawal. These are normal responses to seasonal change—signals that our minds and bodies may need a little extra care. 🌿💗

At PLAE Therapy, we remind families that emotional and physical wellness are connected. Small, intentional shifts can help everyone move through this season with steadiness and compassion.

Ways to Ease the Impact of Seasonal Change:
🌿 Adjust routines.
Allow slower mornings, cozy downtime, and flexible rhythms that align with your family’s current energy.

💚 Nourish differently.
Warm, grounding foods like soups, roasted vegetables, and hearty grains can help stabilize energy and mood.

🌿 Seek light and movement.
Open blinds, get outside when you can, or move together indoors—light and activity support emotional regulation.

💗 Normalize emotional shifts.
Talk openly about how moods change with the seasons to help children build emotional awareness and self-compassion.

🌿 Create comforting rituals.
Warm drinks, evening candles, soft music, or shared quiet moments help signal safety and calm.

When to Seek Support
If your child shows ongoing sadness, irritability, or withdrawal, it may be time to reach out. Our integrative approach at PLAE Therapy helps children connect their minds and bodies, build awareness, and find balance through all seasons. 💚

Learn more or connect with us at plaetherapy.com 🌿

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!

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1336 South 1100 East
Salt Lake City, UT
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+18012159660

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http://www.plantedhealing.com/

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