Counseling and Therapy. What is it really?
Counseling is an opportunity to find relief from suffering and to live life differently. Counseling is a process, guided by a trained professional, whereby you, the client, work to uncover, understand, and transform the problems that you are facing. Systematic and informed, counseling is an opportunity for change. Counselors listen and support, provide feedback and motivation, educate and encourage, collaborate and challenge.
Method of Counseling
With a firm grounding in Existential & Transpersonal Psychology, RISE COUNSELING, LLC utilizes techniques and methods derived from cognitive theory, mindfulness, and experiential processing.
Cognitive Theory holds the belief that psychological problems (and psychological health for that matter) result from a person's perceptions and beliefs about life and the world around them. A person's perceptions and beliefs both form and are formed by their physiology, their emotional functioning, their behaviors, their thoughts, and their social environment. Cognitive theory, in essence, supports the idea that the mind is an extremely powerful influence on personal health and well-being - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Mindfulness is the on-going development of awareness in the present moment. Much mental, emotional, and psychological suffering comes from our compulsion to escape and avoid our experiences in life - especially those experiences that are commonly categorized as negative. Mindfulness is about recognizing thoughts, feelings, and body sensations and staying with them - even if they are unpleasant.
Experiential Processing is often utilized in sessions at Rise Counseling, LLC. This means that you're not just gonna talk about your problems but that you are going to get up off the couch and have a lived experience right there in the session. The lived experience serves to motivate insight, understanding and change.
