Counseling and Therapy. What is it really?
Counseling is an opportunity to find relief from your frustrations and to live life differently. Counseling is a process, guided by a trained professional, whereby someone in need works to uncover, understand, and transform the problems that he or she faces. 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 Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychology,RISE COUNSELING, LLC utilizes techniques and methods derived from experiential therapy, cognitive therapy and the tradition and teachings of mindfulness.
Experiential Therapy is highly emphasized and frequently utilized 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 do something both inside and outside the counseling session that will motivate insight, understanding and change.
Cognitive therapy 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 therapy, 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 simply awareness of 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 being negative. Mindfulness is about recognizing thoughts, feelings, and body sensations and staying with them - even if they are unpleasant.
