Andrea De Luca

Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist
Founder of Rising Roots Psychotherapy

I believe many of the struggles people experience today make sense in the context of what they’ve lived through, adapted to, and carried for years.

Anxiety, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt often develop as protective responses — not personal failures.

My approach focuses on helping clients better understand those patterns with compassion while creating space for deeper healing, emotional safety, and lasting change.

My Approach to Therapy

I work from a trauma-informed and attachment-focused lens, helping clients explore the deeper emotional roots beneath the symptoms they’re experiencing.

Therapy with me is collaborative, relational, and grounded in curiosity rather than judgment.

Together, we explore:

• relational patterns

• nervous system responses

• emotional wounds

• self-worth

• boundaries

• communication

• protective coping strategies

to help you feel more connected to yourself and others.

About Me

I bring both professional training and lived experience to this work. Living with a chronic health condition has shaped my relationship with my body, sense of self, and capacity to care for myself. These experiences help me hold space for the invisible struggles many people carry: managing overwhelm, negotiating shifting identities, healing relational or generational trauma, navigating fertility struggles, loss and managing the tension between hope, fear, and self-doubt.

My Christian faith has played an important role in my own understanding of healing, resilience, and meaning.

While Rising Roots Psychotherapy welcomes individuals of all beliefs and backgrounds, I also offer faith-integrated therapy for clients who wish to incorporate their Christian beliefs into the counselling process.

Faith integration is always client-led and approached with care, respect, and compassion.