You weren’t meant to carry it all.
Therapy can help you put it down.
At Gentle Growth Mental Health Counseling, therapy is a space to explore how early family dynamics and childhood experiences shape your relationships, boundaries, and sense of self. Through compassionate, evidence-based care, we work together to uncover the roots of anxiety, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, and emotional overwhelm—helping you build healthier relationships, reconnect with yourself, and move through life with greater confidence, safety, and authenticity.
Currently accepting new waitlist requests.
Available appointments are limited at this time. If you'd like to be considered for future availability, we'd love to learn more about your needs.
Who We Help:
At Gentle Growth Mental Health Counseling, we support adults who want to better understand how early life experiences, family dynamics, and generational patterns continue to influence their relationships—with partners, parents, children, and themselves.
Whether you're navigating the emotional demands of parenthood, struggling to set healthy boundaries, or finding yourself repeating familiar relationship patterns, therapy offers a space to slow down, deepen self-understanding, and create lasting change. Together, we'll explore your experiences with compassion while building the tools to help you feel more grounded, connected, and authentic.
We commonly support clients who are:
Healing from childhood trauma or emotional neglect
Exploring how attachment patterns or family roles influence their relationships
Breaking free from people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, perfectionism, or anxiety
Recovering from parentification or unrealistic family expectations
Learning to parent with intention while maintaining their own identity and well-being
Seeking healthier relationships with themselves and those they love
At Gentle Growth, our approach is warm, collaborative, and rooted in emotional safety. We believe healing happens through curiosity, self-compassion, and meaningful connection—not judgment or pressure.
If you're ready to better understand your story and create new patterns that align with the life you want, we're here to support you.
Currently accepting new waitlist requests.
Available appointments are limited at this time. If you'd like to be considered for future availability, we'd love to learn more about your needs.
Founder: Catherine Frias-Johnson, LMHC-D
Areas of Gentle Growth:
Relationship Patterns and Inner Work
Explore how early roles, family systems, and unmet needs shape the way you show up in relationships today. Learn to recognize patterns, set boundaries, and honor your emotional truth.
Parenting While Healing
Support for parents and caregivers working to break cycles of emotional neglect, perfectionism, and guilt — while raising children in emotionally safe and attuned ways.
Anxiety, Overwhelm, and Emotional Burnout
Therapy for those constantly walking on eggshells, avoiding conflict, or silencing their needs. Together we’ll calm the inner noise and reconnect you to your intuition.
Trauma, EMDR, and Reprocessing
Gentle but deep work to help you process trauma, rewire old beliefs, and build new ways of relating to yourself and others — with EMDR available as part of your care.
Clinical Supervision
A collaborative space to deepen your clinical insight, strengthen your therapeutic skills, and grow with confidence. Ideal for pre-licensed therapists seeking thoughtful, supportive guidance.
Educational Webinars
Interactive and accessible learning on topics that support personal growth, relationships, and emotional well-being. Ideal for anyone curious about mental health or seeking practical tools for everyday life.
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