We are qualified to address mental health issues through assessment, prevention, and treatment. RISE offers a safe and supportive, individual, integrative approach to help you or your loved ones explore the underlying meaning of your concerns regarding:
- Life transitions
- Career issues
- Stress and anger management
- Panic and anxiety
- Depression
- Marital and relationship problems
- Obsessive or compulsive behaviour
- Sexual abuse or trauma
- Grief and loss
- Substance abuse
- Gender and sexuality issues
- Child and adolescent issues
- Communication skills or assertiveness
- Conflict resolution
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on helping clients to behave more consistently with their own values and apply mindfulness and acceptance skills to their responses to uncontrollable experiences.
"We as a culture seem to be dedicated to the idea that ‘negative’ human emotions need to be fixed, managed, or changed—not experienced as part of a whole life. We are treating our own lives as problems to be solved as if we can sort through our experiences for the ones we like and throw out the rest," Hayes in a Psychology Today post.
"Acceptance, mindfulness, and values are key psychological tools needed for that transformative shift."
The theory behind ACT is that it is counterproductive to try to control painful emotions or psychological experiences; suppression of these feelings ultimately leads to more distress. ACT adopts the view that there are valid alternatives to trying to change the way you think, and these include mindful behaviour, attention to personal values, and commitment to action. By taking steps to change their behaviour while, at the same time, learning to accept their psychological experiences, clients can eventually change their attitudes and emotional states.
Working with a therapist, you will learn to listen to your own self-talk or the way you talk to yourself specifically about traumatic events, problematic relationships, physical limitations, or other challenges. You can then decide if a problem requires immediate action and change or if it can, or must, be accepted for what it is while you learn to make behavioural changes that can modify the situation.
Connect with us today to book sessions at danielleramos@risebehaviourservices.ca
"We as a culture seem to be dedicated to the idea that ‘negative’ human emotions need to be fixed, managed, or changed—not experienced as part of a whole life. We are treating our own lives as problems to be solved as if we can sort through our experiences for the ones we like and throw out the rest," Hayes in a Psychology Today post.
"Acceptance, mindfulness, and values are key psychological tools needed for that transformative shift."
The theory behind ACT is that it is counterproductive to try to control painful emotions or psychological experiences; suppression of these feelings ultimately leads to more distress. ACT adopts the view that there are valid alternatives to trying to change the way you think, and these include mindful behaviour, attention to personal values, and commitment to action. By taking steps to change their behaviour while, at the same time, learning to accept their psychological experiences, clients can eventually change their attitudes and emotional states.
Working with a therapist, you will learn to listen to your own self-talk or the way you talk to yourself specifically about traumatic events, problematic relationships, physical limitations, or other challenges. You can then decide if a problem requires immediate action and change or if it can, or must, be accepted for what it is while you learn to make behavioural changes that can modify the situation.
Connect with us today to book sessions at danielleramos@risebehaviourservices.ca