Milton McLelland, Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC)
Milton D. McLelland graduated from the University of Phoenix with his Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2012. He worked for the local Medicaid provider (Southwest Behavioral Health Center) in Iron County from 2012- 2018. He had the honor of working with the most acute mentally ill clients there. They taught him that a disease does not define a person and that they can build the life they want, even with the hardest of disabilities. In Milton’s opinion, every mental health practitioner would benefit from spending a few years in those clinics. In 2016 Milton started Roots Counseling with his wife, Rochelle, who is also a mental health counselor. They worked part-time until 2018, when they took the leap into full entrepreneurship. Since 2016 they have grown to 5 total therapists and have built a successful practice. Roots Counseling specializes in trauma recovery through understanding and learning how a person got to where they presently are in life, healing through connection with the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. They also help clients obtain growth and strengthening through skills development to drive and build their own life worth living. Hence the Roots’ motto: Learn, Heal, Grow, Strengthen. Milton and Roots’ main therapeutic methods are Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (better known as EMDR). Milton has also trained with The Amen Clinic, the world leader in brain health, and The Gottman Method, which specializes in couples’ mental wellness.