Traditional Therapy for Children, Adolescents, and Adults
A safe space to be seen, heard, and understood
Having someone's complete, undivided attention, someone who sees you not as a problem to be fixed, but as a whole person with inherent beauty and wisdom, can be transformative. At Roots to Branches Soul Studio in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Therese Daniels, LPC, CNIT, provides traditional one-on-one counseling to individuals of all ages (6 and up) in a warm, welcoming environment where healing and growth can unfold naturally.
Whether you're a parent seeking support for your child, an adolescent navigating the complex terrain of growing up, or an adult looking for guidance through life's challenges, Therese offers a calm, nurturing space where you can explore what's really going on beneath the surface. Her integrative mindful approach addresses you as a whole person, not just a collection of symptoms, and promotes the balance, healing, and wellness you deserve.
What is traditional therapy with Therese?
Traditional therapy at Roots to Branches Soul Studio is one-on-one counseling that creates space for deep, meaningful work. During your hour-long sessions with Therese, you'll sit together in her calming office space and explore whatever is weighing on your heart or mind. The gentle colors on the walls, the comfortable seating, the sense of being held in a safe container, all designed to help you feel at ease, so you can do the important work of understanding yourself more deeply.
Therese provides counseling to help you create balance in your life, make connections between past experiences and current behaviors and attitudes, and develop healthy goals and meaningful change. This isn't about quick fixes or surface-level solutions. It's about digging deeper, understanding the roots of what you're experiencing, and allowing your inner beauty to shine through.
Therese's integrative mindful approach
What sets Therese apart is her integrative, mindful approach to therapy. She doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all treatment or rigid protocols that ignore your unique experience. Instead, Therese meets each individual where they are and jointly creates a plan that will best meet their needs.
This collaborative approach means that therapy with Therese is personalized for you. She draws from a rich toolkit of evidence-based practices, weaving together elements that will serve your particular situation, personality, and goals. While talk therapy is the primary modality, how that looks and what it includes will be as unique as you are.
Therese's mindfulness-based foundation means that she helps you develop present-moment awareness, cultivate self-compassion, and build the capacity to observe your thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them. This mindful approach runs through all the work you'll do together, whether you're processing difficult emotions, developing new coping skills, or exploring patterns that no longer serve you.
Therapy for children and adolescents
Therese has a special place in her heart for working with young people. She understands that childhood and adolescence can be incredibly challenging times, full of changes, pressures, and emotions that can feel overwhelming. Her approach to working with children and adolescents is gentle, age-appropriate, and deeply respectful of where they are in their development.
Creating safety for young hearts
Children and teens need to feel safe before they can open up and do meaningful therapeutic work. Therese creates this safety through her warm, non-judgmental presence and her ability to meet young people exactly where they are. She doesn't talk down to children or dismiss their experiences as "just kid stuff." In fact, she often gets right down on the floor with them, whether they are working on a project, playing a game, or creating art with their favorite music playing in the background. Therese literally gets on their level. She recognizes that what they're going through is real, valid, and deserves to be taken seriously.
In Therese's calming office space in Ardmore, young clients find a refuge from the demands and expectations of daily life. Here they can express themselves freely, explore their feelings without judgment, and begin to understand themselves in new ways. If your child is hesitant about therapy, Therese can work gently to acclimate them to the dynamic, which allows them to feel relaxed and in a safe space to share.
Common concerns Therese addresses with young clients
Parents often bring their children to see Therese for a variety of reasons. She works with young people experiencing:
Anxiety: Whether it's generalized worry that seems to touch everything, social anxiety that makes school and friendships feel impossible, or specific fears that have taken root, Therese helps children and adolescents understand their anxiety and develop tools to manage it. She teaches them that anxiety doesn't have to control their lives.
Depression: When a child or teen is struggling with persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities they once loved, or feelings of hopelessness, Therese provides a compassionate space to explore these heavy emotions. She helps young people understand that depression is not a character flaw; it's something they're experiencing, not something they are.
Behavioral challenges: Sometimes children act out because they don't have the words for what they're feeling or the skills to manage big emotions. Therese helps her young clients and their families understand what's driving the behavior and develop healthier ways of expressing needs and feelings.
Family changes: Divorce, moving, loss of a loved one; these transitions can shake a child's sense of security. Therese provides support during these difficult times, helping young people process their emotions and adjust to new realities.
Negative self-talk: Many children and adolescents develop harsh inner critics that tell them they're not good enough, smart enough, or worthy of love. Therese helps young clients identify these unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced, compassionate ways of thinking about themselves.
Working with families
Therese understands that children don't exist in isolation. She offers flexibility in how she works with young clients, sometimes seeing children alone, sometimes including parents in sessions for family therapy. This adaptability allows her to provide the type of support that will be most beneficial for each unique situation.
When parents are involved in sessions, Therese helps families improve communication, understand each other's perspectives, and work together toward healing and growth. She recognizes that sometimes the whole family system needs support, not just the identified child.
Therapy for adults
While Therese's roots are in working with children, she provides equally compassionate and effective therapy for adults navigating their own challenges. Adult clients come to Therese seeking support for many of the same core issues, anxiety, depression, and the need for better coping skills, but the expression and context of these struggles look different in adult life.
Anxiety in adulthood
Adult anxiety often shows up as constant worry about work, relationships, finances, or health. It might manifest as perfectionism, people-pleasing, or difficulty making decisions. Some adults have carried anxiety since childhood, while others find it emerging or intensifying during times of stress or transition.
Therese helps adult clients understand the roots of their anxiety and develop practical tools to manage it. She works with you to identify the thought patterns that fuel anxiety and gently guides you toward more balanced, realistic ways of thinking. Through her mindful approach, you'll learn to create space between the anxious thoughts and your response to them, giving you more choice in how you engage with worry.
Depression and low mood
Depression in adults can feel like moving through life under a heavy gray cloud. Everything feels harder, joy feels distant, and even small tasks can feel overwhelming. Some people experience depression as numbness rather than sadness, a disconnection from themselves and the world around them.
Therese provides a warm, non-judgmental space where you can explore what's contributing to your depression. She helps you understand the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and supports you in making small, sustainable changes that can gradually lift the weight of depression. Her integrative approach addresses not just your symptoms but you as a whole person, considering all the factors that contribute to your well-being.
Building healthy copy skills
Many adults never learned healthy ways to cope with stress, difficult emotions, or life's inevitable challenges. Perhaps they turn to unhelpful patterns when things get hard, avoidance, overworking, substance use, or emotional shutdown. Or maybe old coping strategies just aren't working anymore.
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Therese introduces evidence-based coping skills that can actually be used in daily life. She teaches breathing techniques that calm the nervous system in moments of stress, grounding exercises that help one stay present when anxiety threatens to sweep everything away, and mindfulness practices that create space around difficult emotions. These aren't abstract concepts to Therese; they're practical tools she practices together with her clients who learn to integrate them into their lives.
Creating balance and meaningful change
In our fast-paced world, balance can feel impossible. When pulled in too many directions, disconnected from what really matters, or living in ways that don't align with our deepest values. Therese takes a step back, enabling a look at life with fresh eyes, identifying what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change.
Through her collaborative approach, Therese and her client will develop healthy goals that feel authentic, not goals imposed from the outside or driven by "shoulds." She helps create sustainable change, the kind that lasts because it comes from a deep understanding of the self and a genuine commitment to wellbeing.
Beginning your journey with Therese
Taking the first step toward therapy requires courage, whether you're seeking support for yourself or for your child. Therese honors that courage and makes starting therapy as accessible and welcoming as possible.
Traditional therapy sessions are available for a flat fee, with sliding scale options available for those who need financial flexibility. If you think you might benefit from adjusted pricing, simply reach out and apply. Therese is committed to making therapy accessible to those who need it.
Take the next step toward healing
Your inner beauty is waiting to shine through. Whether you're a parent seeking support for your child, a young person navigating difficult emotions, or an adult ready to create meaningful change in your life, Therese Daniels is here to support you.
Ready to learn more about traditional therapy in Ardmore, PA? Fill out the contact form, and schedule your initial consultation with Therese at Roots to Branches Soul Studio. Discover how personalized, mindful therapy can help you or your child move toward greater balance, healing, and wellness.
Traditional therapy sessions with Therese Daniels are held at Roots to Branches Soul Studio in Ardmore, serving children, adolescents, and adults throughout Montgomery County and the greater Philadelphia region.