ABOUT PERENNIAL
Integrative Therapy
OUR MISSIONThe Perennial Approah
Why "perennial"?
A perennial is a plant that does not have to be replanted. It dies back, waits through winter, and returns from its own roots — fuller than before.
The name is the philosophy. Most of us come to therapy in a season that feels like winter — bare, slowed, uncertain whether anything is still alive underneath. Perennial begins from a different assumption: that the roots are intact, that what looks like an ending is often dormancy, and that growth which returns from your own ground is sturdier than growth forced from outside.
This is not optimism for its own sake. It is a clinical stance. The work is to tend conditions — safety, understanding, the right support at the right time — so that your own capacity for change can do what it is built to do. It is captured in three commitments: safety first, connection always, transformation over time.
What “integrative” means here
Integrative therapy means no single school of thought owns the session. Different seasons and different people call for different tools. Rather than fitting you to one method, Perennial draws from several evidence-based approaches and integrates them around you.
THE PERENNIAL APPROACHWhy Perennial?
A perennial is a plant that does not have to be replanted. It dies back, waits through winter, and returns from its own roots — fuller than before.
The name is the philosophy. Most of us come to therapy in a season that feels like winter — bare, slowed, uncertain whether anything is still alive underneath. Perennial begins from a different assumption: that the roots are intact, that what looks like an ending is often dormancy, and that growth which returns from your own ground is sturdier than growth forced from outside.
This is not optimism for its own sake. It is a clinical stance. The work is to tend conditions — safety, understanding, the right support at the right time — so that your own capacity for change can do what it is built to do. It is captured in three commitments: safety first, connection always, transformation over time.
What "integrative" means here
Integrative therapy means no single school of thought owns the session. Different seasons and different people call for different tools. Rather than fitting you to one method, Perennial draws from several evidence-based approaches and integrates them around you.
THE APPROACH, IN PRACTICE
Four threads, woven to fit.
These are the traditions Perennial draws on. In any given session, one may lead and the others recede — the mix is chosen for you, not prescribed in advance.
Somatic & mindfulness — the body's knowledge.
Stress, trauma, and emotion live in the body, not only in thought. Body-based and mindfulness practices help you notice and work with what your nervous system is doing, building a felt sense of safety that talk alone cannot reach.
CBT & DBT — patterns you can work with.
Cognitive and dialectical approaches give concrete tools for the loops of thought, mood, and reaction that keep people stuck — skills for distress, for relationships, and for changing the stories that no longer serve you.
Faith-attuned care — meaning included.
For many people, spiritual life is not separate from mental health. Perennial makes room for the faith and meaning dimension of your experience — never imposed, always on your terms, integrated only as far as you want it.
Relational & integrative — the whole field.
We are shaped by our connections. Whether in individual work or couples therapy, attention to relationships, past and present, grounds the work. Additional modalities are integrated as your needs call for them.
ABOUT MELicensed Psychologist
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- EDUCATION
- PRACTICE
- CREDENTIALS
I teach people how to develop a regular mindfulness practice and integrate it into their everyday lives. Mindfulness practice allows us to fully embrace life’s joys and meet the difficult moments more skillfully, and the result of that is often an increased sense of ease, peace, happiness and fulfillment.
- Learn how to be more present in your life
- Feel a greater sense of peace, happiness, and wellbeing
- Develop a regular mindfulness practice & integrate it into your everyday life
- Live more authentically and intentionally
Ayanna Gellineau is the founder and therapist-owner of Perennial Integrative Therapy, PLLC. Her practice is collaborative, paced, and grounded in the conviction that people are not broken machines to be repaired but living things to be understood — and that the right support helps a person grow back from their own roots.
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Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
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Pennsylvania license: PC017463 (active)
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Regulated by: PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors
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Practice: Perennial Integrative Therapy, PLLC
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