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Bantu Roots Compassionate therapy for individuals and couples navigating relationships, anxiety, trauma, identity, life transitions, and emotional patterns.

LGBTQ+ affirming, culturally responsive, and spiritually integrated. I’m Christian Longue Dessug, also known as Coach Chris, founder of Bantu Roots Holistic Healing Center. I provide client-centered therapy, mental health coaching, relationship support, and personal development services for individuals and couples. My work is grounded in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy. Together, we explore the deeper roots of your emotions, relationship patterns, fears, coping strategies, and recurring challenges so you can understand not only what you do, but why you do it. Therapy with me helps you identify and unlearn patterns that may have once protected you but now limit your confidence, relationships, and emotional well-being. Through insight, emotional processing, nervous-system regulation, and intentional mental health repatterning, you learn healthier ways of responding to yourself, others, and life. My goal is not to control your choices or make you dependent on therapy. It is to help you develop greater self-awareness, emotional control, confidence, and flexibility so you can create lasting change and navigate future challenges with greater freedom. My approach is compassionate, culturally responsive, LGBTQ+ affirming, and open to integrating spirituality when it supports the client’s healing and personal values.

10/11/2026
10/10/2026

"I'm leaving it to God."

Sometimes that's surrender. Sometimes it's avoidance with holy language.

Real faith doesn't skip the hard conversation, the honest grief, or the therapist's chair. God and action were never enemies — scripture pairs them over and over.

Spiritual bypassing says "divine timing" so you never have to be uncomfortable. True surrender says "I trust God AND I do the work."

👉 Be honest with me: where have you used faith to avoid something you need to face? Drop a 🔥 if this one stung a little.

10/09/2026

Write down the sentence your inner critic repeats most often.

Maybe it says:

“You should be further ahead.”
“Stop being so sensitive.”
“Nobody wants to hear that.”
“You should be grateful.”
“You’re embarrassing yourself.”
“You’re too much.”

Now ask:

When did I first learn to speak to myself like this?

Then ask:

Would I speak this way to someone I deeply loved?

This is not about replacing every difficult thought with a positive affirmation. It is about examining whether the authority inside your head deserves its authority.

Your internal world has a history.

And history can be examined.

Comment one word your inner critic uses against you—or save this privately if that feels safer.

10/08/2026

Sometimes your reaction belongs to today.

Sometimes today has accidentally opened yesterday.

Both can be true.

Transference does not mean “it’s all in your head.” It means our emotional history influences what we expect, fear, notice, and interpret in current relationships.

Try this three-question check when a reaction feels unusually intense:

What just happened?
What am I afraid it means?
Who else made me feel this way?

That third question can reveal an entire emotional history.

This is one of the reasons trauma work is not simply about remembering what happened. It is also about noticing where the past is still organizing the present.

DM PATTERN if you’re ready to begin mapping yours.

10/07/2026

Address

13904 Charles Abraham Way
Manor, TX
78653

Opening Hours

Monday 4pm - 8pm
Tuesday 4pm - 8pm
Wednesday 4pm - 8pm
Thursday 4pm - 8pm
Friday 4pm - 8pm

Telephone

+18328020302

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