Tori Strong
Pre-Licensed Professional, MSW
Tori brings experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and families across a variety of settings and stages of life. Her background includes providing home-based counseling services focused on building independence, strengthening life skills, and supporting clients in successfully navigating everyday challenges within their communities. She has also provided Behavioral Health Intervention Services (BHIS), where she supported children and families in developing emotional regulation, communication, problem-solving, relationship, and behavior management skills.
Her Approach to Therapy
Grounded in a systems-based and relational approach, Tori believes meaningful healing begins with feeling seen, understood, and supported. She values meeting clients where they are and works to create a therapeutic space that feels safe, collaborative, and empowering.
Tori approaches therapy with warmth, curiosity, empathy, and a strengths-based lens, recognizing that each person’s experiences, relationships, and nervous system responses shape how they move through the world.
Specialized Interests and Areas of Focus
Tori has experience supporting clients with:
- Emotional regulation
- Anxiety and stress management
- Life transitions
- Behavioral concerns
- Communication and relationship challenges
- Family dynamics
- Building independence and life skills
- Self-esteem and personal growth
- Child and adolescent mental health
Advanced Training in Trauma and Attachment
As part of her work at Roots of Regulation Counseling, Tori is participating in the practice's year-long trauma fellowship program. Through this advanced training experience, she is deepening her understanding of attachment-focused and trauma-informed care, including the ways trauma impacts both the mind and body.
Her fellowship training includes education in:
- Nervous system regulation
- Polyvagal Theory
- Attachment and relational healing
- Trauma-informed care
- Somatic-based interventions
- Building safety, connection, and resilience
A Little About Tori
Outside of work, Tori enjoys spending time with her fiancé, friends, and family, cooking, lifting weights, listening to music, and keeping up with true crime podcasts.