Brooke Hayes
LPC, LADC
Clinical lead
Clinical perspective on attachment, trauma, and relational repair.
Clinically informed · Voice-guided
The way you love, trust, and relate has a story.
Understand the attachment patterns shaping your closest relationships through a private, voice-guided experience grounded in decades of research.
A quiet recognition
Do any of these feel familiar?
These are not flaws. They may be signals — patterns formed long before you had words for them.
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I pull away when closeness grows.
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I overthink every message and silence.
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I fear being abandoned, even when I am not.
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I find it difficult to trust, even when I want to.
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Other people's problems keep me up at night.
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I feel responsible for their happiness.
Understanding attachment
The ways we connect often begin long before adulthood.
Attachment is shaped quietly — through early experiences of care, safety, distance, and repair. It becomes the language we use, often without realizing, in every close relationship that follows.
Understanding that language is not about blame. It is about clarity — the kind that makes change possible.
What Rooted is
A private, voice-guided experience grounded in over forty years of attachment research.
Rooted is not a quiz, not a chatbot, and not therapy. It is a guided digital experience that helps adults understand the relationship patterns shaping how they give and receive care, communicate needs, protect themselves, and stay connected without losing their sense of self.
Through a guided interview, CAAP©-informed analysis of your transcript and narrative, Rooted returns a personalized report designed for clarity and insight — never diagnosis.
Voice-guided
A reflective interview, in your own words.
Private by design
Storage clarity, user choice, ethical boundaries.
CAAP© methodology
Clinical Adult Attachment Protocol-informed.
Narrative report
Personalized insight — never a score or label.
How it works
Four quiet steps. One coherent picture of yourself.
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Prepare your space
Set aside about 90 minutes in a quiet, private space — somewhere your story can be heard.
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Complete the interview
A structured, voice-guided interview gently moves through care, connection, protection, and relationship experiences.
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Transcript analysis
Your transcript is scientifically coded through CAAP© to surface meaningful patterns in how you describe experience.
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Receive your report
A narrative report translates the analysis into clear, reflective, personal insight — yours to return to.
Privacy & Ethics
Your story deserves protection, clarity, and choice.
Rooted asks people to reflect on memory, relationships, and emotional experience. Privacy is part of the experience from the first moment — not an afterthought.
Storage transparency
You always understand how your interview data is stored.
User choice
Clear options to retain, delete, or consent at each step.
Consent clarity
Plain-language consent — never buried in fine print.
Deidentified research
If used for research, your story is separated from your identity.
Not therapy or crisis care
Rooted supports reflection — it is not diagnosis or treatment.
Ethical boundaries
Built with clinical responsibility from the ground up.
Your report
What comes back is not a score. It is a narrative map.
Your Rooted report translates attachment research and your own narrative into clear, personal insight — a portrait of how you give care, receive care, communicate needs, protect yourself, and stay connected.
- Relationship patterns you may repeat
- Communication and care tendencies
- Protective strategies, named clearly
- Emotional safety themes
- Insight you can return to over time
The method
CAAP© is the methodology. Rooted is the delivery system.
The Clinical Adult Attachment Protocol is a narrative-based methodology adapted from decades of adult attachment research. Rooted brings that protocol into a guided digital experience — accessible, ethical, and personal.
Explore the Method- Rooted in adult attachment research
- Developed from Adult Attachment Interview foundations
- Narrative-based — never a quick quiz
- Listens to how experiences are organized and described
- Adapted for practical, personal insight
The science
Attachment research studies not only what happened — but how we make sense of it.
Decades of research
Built on foundational adult attachment research developed over forty years.
Narrative-based analysis
Pays attention to how experiences are described, organized, and held in memory.
Clinically informed
Designed in conversation with licensed clinicians and researchers.
Who Rooted is for
For adults ready to understand relational patterns more deeply.
Individuals
Adults noticing repeating patterns in love and closeness.
Couples & partners
Two people seeking shared language for how they relate.
Parents & reflective adults
Those wanting to understand inherited patterns.
Therapists & clinicians
A grounded tool to complement professional practice.
Organizations & teams
Leaders investing in relational maturity at work.
Founders
Clinicians, researchers, and educators building what they wished existed.
Margaret “Maggi” Richards
PhD, LMSW
Research lead
Research grounding in attachment science and narrative analysis.
Amanda Purvis
MS
Experience lead
Translating clinical methodology into accessible experience.
Is Rooted therapy?+
No. Rooted is a guided self-understanding experience. It can support reflection and may complement therapy, but it is not treatment, diagnosis, crisis support, or a substitute for clinical care.
How long does the interview take?+
Plan for about 90 minutes in a quiet, private space.
What do I receive?+
A personalized narrative report designed to help you understand meaningful attachment-related patterns.
How is my information handled?+
Rooted is designed around privacy, clarity, and user choice from the first moment of the experience.
Can I choose whether my data is stored or used for research?+
Yes. You have clear choices around storage and any future research use. Research-use data is deidentified.
When will access open?+
Rooted is preparing access. Join the waitlist to be notified when the experience opens.
A quiet beginning
Your story deserves to be understood.
Join the waitlist to be among the first to experience Rooted.
No spam. No noise. One quiet email when access opens.