At Arise, we are a team of expert psychologists and clinicians in training dedicated to enhancing wellness, using collaborative and evidence-based treatment models. Contemporary cognitive and behavioral therapies and trauma-informed practices, which emphasize balancing change-oriented and acceptance-based strategies, are the cornerstones of our practice. We aim to help you foster empowered growth in line with your values.
We work with individuals ages 18 and older. All services are provided via telehealth online using a HIPAA-compliant secure telehealth platform.
If you decide to pursue care with Arise, you can expect to engage in an active treatment, driven by collaboratively generated goals. Typically, these goals facilitate you living your life in a manner that feels more aligned with your values. We are likely focus on helping you build resources by cultivating skills and helping you notice more about your habitual patterns. Between. sessions, you will practice new skills and behaviors that we generate together to bring you closer to your goals.
We can help with many behavioral and emotional challenges. Among these, two areas of particular expertise include:
1) Emotion-related challenges and problems. Our team specializes in addressing challenges with intense emotions and difficulty regulating or managing these emotions, which may lead you to feel out of control or have urges to control as much as you can. These emotions can run the spectrum of fear, sadness, guilt, shame, anger, envy, and others. You may be able to identify them, or alternatively, you might know that you’re upset but not know why or what type of “upset”. You might feel that you are prone to experiencing emotion more often than you’d expect (feel sensitive), have strong emotional reactions, and have a hard time recovering once you start to feel upset. Also, when we try to control these emotional experiences without understanding them, we often tend to resort to behavioral strategies that work in the short-term, but have some problems in the long-term. This is sometimes called emotion dysregulation and we have various skills-based interventions to help you with this. There are many behaviors that can arise when someone has trouble regulating their emotions; some common ones we tend to see and can help with are: emotional suppression or numbing, interpersonal problems, isolation, substance use, risky sexual behavior, avoidance behaviors, changes in or struggles with eating behavior, and no longer doing behaviors you used to value or enjoy because they’ve become too uncomfortable.
2) Traumatic stress spectrum. We also specialize in the treatment of traumatic stress. We think of traumatic stress as a spectrum that includes experiences categorized as traumas as well as experiences of severe stressors that may be experienced as traumatic or toxic. These experiences are varied and can include childhood abuse or neglect, intimate partner violence, sexual trauma, discrimination, bullying, and witnessing or experiencing violence. These experiences may also occur in the workplace, such as discrimination, harassment, secondary trauma, institutional betrayal, and moral injury — sometimes leading to burnout and/or traumatic stress responses. We also attend to intergenerational trauma, historical trauma, cultural trauma, and other concepts that speak to the intersection of identity and trauma.