Consent first
You set the pace and the depth. We ask before we go anywhere near a tender place, every time.
Our story
A clearing in the woods, for two kinds of healing.
Verdant Grove began with a simple, stubborn observation: the people who most need emotional care are often the same people drowning in forms, eligibility rules and waiting rooms. We refused to make them go to two different places for one whole life.
Why we exist
Whole people, not split files.
Our founder spent a decade watching clients heal beautifully in the therapy room, then come undone trying to prove their disability to a system that demanded paperwork they had no energy to chase. The two struggles fed each other - shame made the admin harder, and the admin re-opened the shame.
So we built a practice that holds both. We listen to the feeling and we help with the form, in the same warm room, at the same gentle pace. No diagnosis is required to begin. No story is too small. And nothing happens faster than your nervous system can carry.
What we stand for
Four quiet commitments.
Plain language
No jargon, no gatekeeping. We translate clinical and bureaucratic worlds into words that make sense.
Lived experience
Our team has navigated trauma and access systems ourselves. We're guides, not distant experts.
Honest limits
When we're not the right fit, we say so and refer you onward - gladly, and with a warm handover.
The people
A small team, on purpose.
Three practitioners and a coordinator. Small enough that you'll always know who's holding your story.
Rowan Welby
Founder · Trauma practitionerReparenting and somatic work, with a soft spot for the people everyone else found "too complicated."
Imara Okonkwo
Access & eligibility leadTurns dense eligibility rules into checklists you can actually finish. Has filled out more forms than the rest of us combined.
Tomas Reyes
Somatic & group facilitatorHolds our Steady Ground circles and breathwork. Believes the body keeps the receipts - and can be gently repaid.
Come and see if the Grove fits.
A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It's simply a chance to be heard.