ROOT AND GROW WELLNESS COUNSELING
Where healing takes root and growth finds its path.
Who We Are
Welcome to Root & Grow Wellness Counseling 🌱 We offer group therapy for individuals who want connection, support, and real-life tools in a warm, welcoming space. Our groups are designed to help you feel less alone while learning skills that support healing, growth, and emotional well-being.
Root & Grow was founded by Jessica Castro, LMFT, and Shannon French, LCSW, who believe that meaningful change often happens in community. Group therapy creates a powerful space to share experiences, gain perspective, and build confidence alongside others who truly understand.
Our approach is supportive, down-to-earth, and focused on growth at your own pace. Whether you’re navigating stress, life transitions, or emotional challenges, our groups are here to help you plant strong roots and grow forward—together.
Now Enrolling
Growing Through Anxiety Group
Growing Through Anxiety is a gentle, supportive therapy group for adults who feel overwhelmed, stuck in overthinking, or constantly on edge. If anxiety has been running the show in your daily life, this space is designed to help you take back control — at your pace.
You don’t have to share before you’re ready. You won’t be put on the spot. This group offers practical tools to calm your body, steady your thoughts, and build confidence in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Many people find relief simply knowing they’re not the only one feeling this way.
If anxiety has been keeping you small, this is a space to grow — with support.
Fourth Trimester/ Post-Partum Group
The fourth trimester is a tender and often overwhelming time full of change, adjustment, and mixed emotions. This supportive postpartum group is designed for new parents navigating life after birth, offering a safe space to process the emotional, mental, and identity shifts that come with caring for a newborn.
Participants will have the opportunity to connect with others in a similar stage of life, share openly, and feel less alone during this transition. The group gently explores topics such as postpartum mood changes, identity shifts, relationship changes, self-compassion, and coping skills for the early months of parenthood.
Our goal is to provide connection, validation, and support as you find your footing because healing, growth, and adjustment don’t end at delivery.
Anxiety Unfiltered- Teen Group
(Ages 12-17)
This teen group therapy for anxiety is a supportive and engaging space for adolescents ages 12-17 who experience worry, stress, or anxiety in their daily lives. The group helps teens understand how anxiety shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and bodies while teaching practical coping skills such as grounding techniques, mindfulness, and healthy self-talk.
Through interactive activities, peer discussion, and guided skill practice, participants build confidence, improve emotional regulation, and learn they are not alone in their experiences. The group is facilitated in a safe, age-appropriate, and nonjudgmental environment that encourages connection, self-expression, and resilience.
Find Your Upcoming Group
Growing Through Anxiety
Fourth Trimester/Post-Partum Group
Parents of Children with ADHD Support Group
Life Transitions
Coping Through Depression
Managing Stress and Coping Skills
G.R.A.P.E.S. for Teens (Gratitude, Relaxation, Affirmations, Pleasure, Exercise, and Social).
Adult Children Of Emotionally Immature Parents
Meet Your Therapists
Shannon French, LCSW
Co-Founder| Licensed Clinical Social Worker
As a therapist, I believe healing begins with being truly seen and heard. Grounded in a humanistic approach, my work centers on empathy, authenticity, and honoring each person’s inherent capacity for growth and self-understanding. I strive to create a collaborative, nonjudgmental space where clients feel safe to explore their experiences at their own pace.
Outside of the therapy room, I find joy in tending to my garden, getting lost in books of all genres, and traveling whenever possible. I am also a proud single parent of three young adults, an experience that has deepened my appreciation for resilience, connection, and life’s transitions. These lived experiences inform my practice and reinforce my belief that growth often emerges from both challenge and curiosity.
Jessica Castro, LMFT
Co-Founder | Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and co-founder of Root & Grow Wellness. I’m passionate about creating warm, inclusive spaces where people feel safe to show up as they are and supported as they grow.
I work with adults and teens, and I have experience supporting clients with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and identity exploration. I believe therapy should feel collaborative, approachable, and grounded in real life not intimidating or overly clinical.
In addition to my clinical work, I’m currently pursuing my doctorate in psychology, which allows me to integrate research-informed practices while keeping therapy practical, relatable, and human. Through Root & Grow Wellness, I’m especially passionate about group therapy and individual services that help people feel less alone and more connected.
My approach is warm, compassionate, and strengths-based, with an emphasis on connection, self-awareness, and sustainable change.
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Shannon French, LCSW
Jessica Castro, LMFT