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Mel Dol ADHD and Plant Wellness Therapy, 509 Harmons creek Road, Poca, WV (2026)

08/23/2026

🌿 TODAY’S ROOTED™ PLANT: ALOCASIA ‘JACKLYN’ 🌿
Alocasia tandurusa

Today I’m focusing on anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional regulation through:

R — Regulate the nervous system.

The bold, textured leaves of the Alocasia ‘Jacklyn’ remind me that regulation creates structure.

When our nervous system is overwhelmed, racing thoughts, muscle tension, irritability, difficulty focusing, sleep disturbances, and that constant feeling of being “on edge” can begin taking over.

We don’t always need to solve everything immediately.

Sometimes we need to regulate first.

🌿 Slow down.
🌿 Notice what your body is telling you.
🌿 Create space between the feeling and the reaction.
🌿 Then decide what needs care.

THE ROOTED™ MODEL

R — Regulate the nervous system
O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
T — Tend to what needs care
E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change

The plant comes after the clinical decision. The client comes first.

Plants can give us a living reference for therapeutic concepts, but the goal isn’t simply to talk about plants. The goal is to use intentional clinical interventions to help people develop skills they can carry into their everyday lives.

🌱 Plant wisdom. Clinical intention. Rooted in healing.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
National Certified Counselor
Mel Dol ADHD & Wellness
📧 [email protected]
📞 304-951-2487

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

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08/22/2026

🌿 TODAY’S PLANT: ALOCASIA WENTII 🌿

Mental Health Focus:
Anxiety, Overwhelm & Nervous System Dysregulation

🌱 WHY THIS PLANT?

The bold, arrow-shaped leaves of Alocasia Wentii remind us that strength and sensitivity can grow together. This plant thrives with the right care, just like our nervous systems—with support, consistency, and a safe environment.

Symptoms May Include:

🌿 Racing thoughts
🌿 Muscle tension
🌿 Restlessness
🌿 Irritability
🌿 Feeling overwhelmed
🌿 Difficulty sleeping
🌿 Trouble focusing
🌿 Emotional flooding

🌿 THE ROOTED MODEL™
A Plant-Integrated Psychotherapy Framework

R — Regulate the nervous system
Calm the body and mind to create safety.

O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
Build awareness without judgment.

O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
Create structure that supports stability.

T — Tend to what needs care
Nourish emotions, relationships, and self.

E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
Try new skills. Celebrate small wins.

D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change
Make change that lasts beyond therapy.

🌱 CLINICAL REFLECTION

Alocasia Wentii teaches us that even in seasons of stress, growth is possible with the right care and environment. In therapy, we regulate, reflect, and rebuild—ROOTED in what truly matters.

🌿 ROOTED Supported Responsibility Principle

Do not give a client responsibility without also assessing what support makes that responsibility realistically possible.

ROOTED™ Plant Therapy
The plant comes after the clinical decision.
The client comes first.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
[email protected]
304-951-2487

Mel Dol ADHD & Wellness
Counseling Support — Children • Teens • Adults
Individual Therapy • Telehealth & In-Person • Now Accepting New Clients

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

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08/21/2026

🌿 GROWTH DOESN’T HAVE TO LOOK PERFECT — TODAY’S ROOTED™ PLANT

Today’s plant is the Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata), and I’m connecting it with anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional regulation.

🌱 WHY THIS PLANT?

The Ponytail Palm stores water in its enlarged base, giving it a reserve to draw from when conditions become difficult. Look closely at this plant: there are brown, dried leaves alongside healthy green growth.

I think there is something important in that.

Healing can look like this too.

We can carry evidence of difficult seasons while continuing to grow. Therapy isn’t about pretending those difficult parts never happened. It is about developing the regulation, supports, coping strategies, and resilience needed to keep moving forward.

Someone struggling with anxiety or emotional overwhelm may experience racing thoughts, difficulty regulating emotions, tension, exhaustion, irritability, or burnout.

🌿 THE ROOTED™ MODEL

R — Regulate the nervous system
Creating enough safety and stability to respond rather than simply react.

O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
Learning to notice what is happening internally without immediately judging it.

O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
Building realistic structures that make everyday responsibilities more manageable.

T — Tend to what needs care
Identifying what has been neglected, overwhelmed, hurt, or depleted and giving it appropriate attention.

E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
Practicing healthier responses consistently rather than expecting change to happen overnight.

D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change
Taking what is learned in therapy and developing skills that can continue beyond the therapy room.

🌱 Clinical Reflection:
You don’t have to remove every sign of a difficult season before you are allowed to recognize your growth. Sometimes old and new growth exist together.

The plant comes after the clinical decision. The client comes first.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor | National Certified Counselor
📞 304-951-2487
📧 [email protected]

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/20/2026

🌿 TODAY’S ROOTED™ PLANT: Philodendron ‘Rojo Congo’
Philodendron erubescens

Mental Health Focus: Emotional Regulation, Stress, Anxiety & Overwhelm

🌱 WHY THIS PLANT?
The Rojo Congo’s bold red new leaves remind me that growth can begin in a vulnerable place. New growth may emerge tender and different before becoming stronger and more established. In therapy, growth can look much the same. We don’t have to have everything figured out before we begin.

🌿 THE ROOTED MODEL™

R — Regulate the nervous system
O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
T — Tend to what needs care
E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change

Like the Rojo Congo, we can grow through pressure and change. When we regulate, observe, organize, tend, encourage, and develop, we create space for something new to emerge.

You don’t have to rush your growth.
Root down. Rise up. You’ve got this. 🌿

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/18/2026

🌿 ROOTED IN GROWTH — Sometimes Growth Gets BIG! 🌿

Today I’m standing beside this beautiful Alocasia wentii (New Guinea Shield), and its enormous leaves are such a powerful reminder of what can happen when something receives the environment, care, and support it needs to grow.

In therapy, growth can look a lot like this.

We may begin feeling overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally exhausted, unsure of ourselves, or struggling through changes in life. Growth doesn’t mean those experiences magically disappear. It means learning how to care for ourselves while developing the skills and supports that help us move forward.

🌱 WHY THIS PLANT?

Alocasia wentii grows bold, strong leaves while still requiring consistent care and the right environment. To me, that represents an important part of mental health: being sensitive does not mean being weak.

This plant can be a therapeutic metaphor for:
🌿 Anxiety
🌿 Emotional overwhelm
🌿 Life transitions and adjustment
🌿 Self-esteem and self-doubt
🌿 Boundaries
🌿 Emotional fatigue and burnout

This is where THE ROOTED MODEL™ comes in:

🌿 R — Regulate the nervous system
🌿 O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
🌿 O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
🌿 T — Tend to what needs care
🌿 E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
🌿 D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change

The plant comes after the clinical decision.
The client comes first.

Today, standing next to this giant Alocasia, my reflection is simple:

Growth doesn’t happen by accident. We create the right environment, tend to ourselves with consistency, and learn to trust the process.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor | National Certified Counselor
📧 [email protected]
📞 304-951-2487

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/13/2026

🌿 ROOTED™ DAILY PLANT — OLD MAN CACTUS 🌿

Today’s Plant: Old Man Cactus (Cephalocereus senilis)

Mental Health Focus: Anxiety • Stress • Overwhelm • Emotional Regulation • Resilience

🌱 WHY THIS PLANT?

The Old Man Cactus reminds me that we all develop ways of protecting the parts of ourselves that feel vulnerable.

Underneath its soft, white covering are protective spines. I think this offers a powerful therapeutic metaphor: sometimes what we see on the outside does not tell us everything about what a person has needed to survive on the inside.

Protection can serve a purpose. Healing can include learning when those protective responses are still needed—and when it may be safe to soften them.

Symptoms we may notice:

🌿 Racing thoughts
🌿 Difficulty focusing
🌿 Emotional exhaustion
🌿 Feeling overwhelmed or easily irritated
🌿 Feeling scattered or disconnected
🌿 Difficulty relaxing or slowing down
🌿 Feeling constantly “on guard”

🌱 THE ROOTED MODEL™

R — Regulate the nervous system
Create enough safety and calm to respond rather than simply react.

O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
Notice what is happening internally without immediately judging it.

O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
Build an environment and support system that makes healthy change realistically possible.

T — Tend to what needs care
Instead of ignoring the parts that are struggling, give them appropriate attention and care.

E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
Small, repeated actions can create meaningful change over time.

D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change
The goal is to build skills that can continue beyond the therapy room and support long-term growth.

🌿 CLINICAL REFLECTION

We all have protective layers.

Sometimes behaviors that look like avoidance, defensiveness, irritability, withdrawal, or emotional distance may be protecting something much more vulnerable underneath.

Like the Old Man Cactus, having protective layers does not mean growth has stopped.

With the right environment, support, boundaries, and intentional care, we can continue to grow while learning which protections still serve us and which ones we are ready to change.

The plant comes after the clinical decision. The client comes first.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/11/2026

🌿 TODAY’S ROOTED™ DAILY POST

Plant: Tradescantia zebrina
Mental Health Focus: Stress, Anxiety, Overwhelm & Emotional Regulation

WHY THIS PLANT?
Tradescantia zebrina is resilient, adaptable, and capable of continuing to grow when given consistent care and the right environment. I use that as a therapeutic reminder: when life feels overwhelming or scattered, we may not need to “fix everything.” Sometimes we need to identify what support, environment, and consistent care will help us grow.

SYMPTOMS WE MAY NOTICE:
🌿 Racing thoughts
🌿 Difficulty focusing
🌿 Feeling emotionally exhausted
🌿 Irritability or becoming easily overwhelmed
🌿 Feeling scattered or pulled in too many directions
🌿 Difficulty slowing down or relaxing

🌱 THE ROOTED MODEL™

R — Regulate the nervous system
Slow down and create enough safety to respond rather than simply react.

O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
Notice what is happening without immediately judging yourself for it.

O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
Create an environment that supports what you realistically need.

T — Tend to what needs care
Instead of ignoring what is struggling, give it attention.

E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
Small, repeated actions can create meaningful change.

D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change
The goal is not perfection. It is developing skills that continue beyond the therapy room.

🌿 CLINICAL REFLECTION

Just like this Tradescantia, we can become stretched in different directions while still continuing to grow.

When life feels chaotic, return to the roots.

Regulate. Observe. Organize. Tend. Encourage. Develop.

Growth does not always mean doing more. Sometimes growth means recognizing what you need, adjusting your environment, and consistently tending to yourself.

The plant comes after the clinical decision. The client comes first.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/10/2026

🌿 Today’s ROOTED™ focus: R — REGULATE

Today’s plant is the Alocasia wentii.

Just as this plant needs the right environment to grow, we also need conditions that allow our nervous systems to settle, regulate, and feel supported.

Anxiety and overwhelm can show up as racing thoughts, tension, restlessness, difficulty focusing, and feeling emotionally overloaded.

ROOTED™ reminds us that we don’t have to tackle everything at once.

R — Regulate the nervous system
O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
T — Tend to what needs care
E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change

🌱 Growth begins below the surface.

Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC
📧 [email protected]

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿

08/09/2026

🌿 ROOTED™ Plant Reflection — Peace Lily

Plant: Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)
Mental Health Focus: Emotional exhaustion, anxiety, depression, grief, chronic stress, and feeling overwhelmed.

Why this plant?
Look at this Peace Lily. Its leaves are hanging low. It isn’t necessarily finished growing—it is communicating that something it needs may be missing.

People can do the same thing.

Sometimes we keep pushing until our emotional leaves begin to droop. We become exhausted, overwhelmed, withdrawn, irritable, unfocused, or simply feel like we have nothing left to give.

The lesson isn’t “try harder.”
The lesson is “identify what needs care.”

That’s where THE ROOTED MODEL™ comes in.

R — Regulate the nervous system
Slow down and create enough safety for the body and mind to settle.

O — Observe thoughts, emotions, patterns, and needs
Instead of judging the droop, notice what it may be communicating.

O — Organize supports, routines, and coping strategies
Determine what supports can realistically help you regain stability.

T — Tend to what needs care
A struggling plant needs appropriate care—not criticism. People do too.

E — Encourage growth through intentional practice
Healing isn’t one big moment. Growth happens through repeated, intentional care.

D — Develop lasting skills, resilience, and meaningful change
The goal isn’t simply to “perk back up.” It’s developing the skills and supports that help you remain rooted when life becomes difficult.

THE ROOTED MODEL™
A Plant-Integrated Psychotherapy Framework
Melonie Dolin, MA, LPC, NCC

🌿 Healing begins at the roots. Stay ROOTED™. Grow with intention. 🌿 # #

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