Bantu Roots

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 explo

re 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.

09/04/2026
09/03/2026

Fight, flight, and freeze get talked about often. Fawn rarely does, maybe because it looks so much like being a good person.

For some people, agreeableness developed as a survival strategy, a way to keep others calm so conflict never had the chance to become dangerous. That is not the same as genuine kindness, even though it can look identical from the outside.

This is education and reflection, not a diagnosis or a substitute for individualized mental health care.

Call to action: Consider exploring this with a trauma-informed therapist if this pattern feels familiar.

08/31/2026

Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are not character traits. They are automatic nervous system responses to threat, real or remembered.

None of them mean something is wrong with you. They mean your body learned, at some point, how to try to keep you safe.

This is education and reflection, not a diagnosis.

Call to action: Save this and notice which response you default to this week.

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13904 Charles Abraham Way
Manor, TX
78653

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

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+18328020302

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