Services
Empowering your balanced, fulfilling life.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Trauma-informed approach that helps process the deeper body-based responses connected to distress and overwhelm. It can support healing from experiences that feel stuck, intense, or difficult to put into words.
This approach is gentle, structured, and paced with care. Sessions are tailored to your needs and your readiness, with a focus on safety and regulation.
DBR may be a helpful option for people seeking meaningful change after trauma, loss, or long-standing emotional pain.
Healing at the Root
Support for Life’s Challenges
Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Therapeutic counselling offers a supportive space to talk through life challenges, build insight, and strengthen coping skills. We use approaches such as CBT, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Grief Counselling, and Motivational Interviewing based on your goals and needs.
This service can support concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions. The work is collaborative, respectful, and focused on practical progress.
Our goal is to help you feel more grounded, supported, and confident in daily life.
Land-Based and Indigenous Healing Practices
This service is designed to support healing in ways that feel meaningful, grounded, and culturally affirming.
Indigenous Land Based Healing connects healing with land, culture, and relationship. This approach honours the importance of identity, community, and lived experience in the healing process.
Sessions are rooted in respect, intention, and collaboration. They may include time on the land, reflection, cultural teachings, and practices that support balance and connection.
Healing in Connection with Land and Culture
Clear Insight for Next Steps
Clinical Assessments
Clinical assessments are available for individuals and families seeking a clearer understanding of needs, concerns, or functioning. We offer assessments for PTSD and Parenting Capacity, with a careful and ethical process throughout.
Clinical assessments are available for individuals and families seeking a clearer understanding of needs, concerns, or functioning. We offer assessments for PTSD and Parenting Capacity, with a careful and ethical process throughout.
Each assessment is completed with professionalism, clarity, and respect. The goal is to provide useful information that can support planning, decision-making, and next steps.
Reports are written in a clear and practical way to help guide care and support.
Meet Our Dedicated Team
Our Therapists & Practitioners
Rajesh Augustian
MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist
Rajesh is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with decades of experience across diverse cultural, social, and professional environments spanning Europe, Asia, and North America. His practice is integrative by design drawing thoughtfully from a range of evidence-based modalities to create a personalized approach tailored to each client’s unique needs, goals, and pace. He offers services in English and Spanish.
Rosalie Chubbs BA Psych
BSW, RSW, MSW
Candidate Registered Social Worker & Therapeutic Counsellor. Raised on the south coast of Labrador, Rosalie brings cultural knowledge, teachings from the land, and a deep appreciation for community into her work at Rooted Minds. This foundation continues to shape both her personal values and her approach to supporting others. Rosalie believes that connection is central to healing. When individuals feel disconnected from themselves, their community, or the land, it impacts their overall well-being.
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Happiness Rate
My clients report feeling happier more energized after completing their coaching program. health and wellness.
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Success in Habit Formation
Clients successfully adopt and sustain healthy habits over the long term, thanks to tailored strategies and consistent support.
82%
Improved Mental Health Counselling Knowledge
Clients leave the service with a deeper understanding of Mental Health Counselling.
OUR STORY
About Rooted Minds Counselling & Assessments
Rooted Minds Counselling & Assessments was founded with a clear vision — to make accessible, effective, and culturally responsive mental health care available to everyone in Newfoundland and Labrador. We built a practice grounded in compassion, evidence, and deep respect for every individual we serve.
Our name says it all. Rooted speaks to stability, grounding, and resilience. Minds reflects our dedication to mental health and human connection. Together, they represent our belief that healing happens when people feel anchored, understood, and supported.
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Welcome to Rooted Minds Counselling & Assessments
Welcome to Rooted Minds Counselling & Assessments. At Rooted Minds, we are a multi-practitioner mental health center based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, offering trauma-informed psychotherapy, counselling, and clinical assessments for individuals, couples, families, and communities. We believe healing begins when people feel grounded, supported, and truly understood.
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Choose The Dignified Care Service
Nursing Home
Compassionate nursing home to give a new home for elderly people.
Private Duty Care Home
Individual care for each and every elder person for their betterment.
Assisted Living
Loving Community
A wholesome community to live and interact with for any elder person.
Dementia Care
Treating Alzheimer patients with patience and care.
Medical Help
To provide the greatest medical support, we offer an immediate medical care
How DBR can help
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
A gentler way to work with trauma
Land-Based and Indigenous Healing Practices
Grounded in who you are. Held in connection.
Land-based healing happens when we return to or reconnect with the land while drawing on supports to relearn, revitalize, and reclaim traditional wellness practices. The land is foundational to Indigenous identity — a living relationship, not simply a place.
For many Indigenous peoples, generations of colonization have created distance from traditional territories and the ways of knowing held within them. Land-based healing is one meaningful path toward restoring that connection — and in doing so, restoring balance within the self, the family, and the community.
At Rooted Minds, we honour this understanding. Our land-based services are offered with cultural humility, respect for local knowledge, and a commitment to care that is safe, relational, and grounded in each person’s own context.
