Our Unique Approach
At RISE & Shine Integrated Therapeutic Services, we’re proud to have taken a uniquely holistic approach to wellness takes into consideration the whole person — body, mind, spirit and soul. Taking a cue from the natural order and sacred geometry of the universe, we believe this holistic approach to personal, physical and mental wellness is an important factor in our remarkable success rate with patients.
As the video above illustrates, we’ve truly incorporated a unique, holistic approach that takes into consideration the whole person. Each shell in the above video represents a separate, yet fully integrated aspect of our approach, as explained below. (Please note that our program is truly unique in that it is flexible and completely tailored to your individual or group needs. Therefore, the descriptions below are merely “jumping off points”. Your customized therapy plan will be created as we become further acquainted.)
1. Integrated Therapeutic Services –
Symbolic of the three different fields working together as a team to help our clients get to know themselves from a holistic approach to personal growth and wellness. This is represented by the triple shell in the centre of the illustration above.
2. Therapeutic Services
A variety of services offered by therapists, counselors, and social workers which are considered to be behavioral, mental, or relational health related issues. These include: individual therapy, conjoint relational therapy, conjoint family therapy, hypnotherapy, individual and group grief recovery services (utilizing the Grief Recovery Method™), stress management training, QPR (Question. Persuade. Refer.) suicide prevention/intervention training for individuals, groups and communities.
3. Medical Services
Having a Medical Director on staff helps to provide Medical insight into a variety of different circumstances to both rule out and help diagnose physical/medical symptoms that need to be included in client quality care. Dr. Neil Furman is available to provide medical evaluation, medication management services, and collaborative therapeutic services, geared toward management of chronic medical issues and physical conditions.
4. Complementary/Alternative Services
After seeing the benefits of having an integrated model, we recognize the benefit of alternative and complementary therapies in providing “whole-patient” care. Among these services would be self defense through self empowerment, energy healing, body work techniques (provided by a licensed massage therapist, with medical massage training), hypnotherapy, and Psych-K advanced training. Other services in this category are being added, and may be available at this time.
5. Mind/Mental Health
In the holistic model, particular issues, symptoms, and struggles that are based in the mind/mental/brain functioning. RRT’s (Rapid Reduction Techniques) and Incorporation Therapy to heal the emotional trauma through therapist guided healing techniques, uses the mind and imagination to reclaim the parts of self that were “lost” in trauma. This may include inner child guided meditations, guided internal communication, psycho-educational information relating to the presenting issues, processing the unique impact, and creating an action plan.
6. Heart/Emotional Health
In the holistic model, particular issues, symptoms, and struggles that are based in the heart and emotions are another area of focus in our approach. Guided bodywork meditations that use visualizations to heal the heart and barriers to feeling, helps clients safely feel and learn to identify uncomfortable feelings, while healing them. RRT’s, Incorporation Therapy, and experiential therapy like art therapy and movement therapy to help heal the blocked emotions.
7. Body/Physical Health
Using a combination of therapeutic treatments to identify whether pain in the body is emotionally or physically based, is an important aspect of healing trauma. At RISE & Shine, we employ a combination of therapeutic treatments to help with this process, including medical evaluation, bodywork (lymphatic drainage, trigger point massage, healthy, and other techniques listed in bio, healthy touch techniques, acupressure and trigger point coping skills) with licensed massage therapist, body RRT’s, symbolic guided visualization techniques for bodywork, breathwork, and movement therapy, EFT Tapping techniques, and learning better nutrition and eating behaviors. May also include somatic therapy, and medical trauma healing techniques.
8. Soul/Spiritual Health
In the Holistic Model, particular issues, symptoms, and struggles that impact the soul or spiritual health. Spiritual conflict consultations, guided meditations targeted towards spiritual and soul healing, chakra balancing, Ho’oponopono, Reiki, Vital Life Force Energy healing, nature and outdoor/wilderness therapy, and experiential sessions may be employed as part of the therapy.
9. Intrapersonal Health
This includes the relationships has with oneself. The ability to learn to accept, respect, and understand oneself and how they relate to the world. This also relates to self-care and being able to be comfortable being alone. This approach may include self-awareness and mindfulness techniques, guided internal communication exercises and meditations, learning to have and create a healthy relationship with oneself through understanding oneself and building self esteem and self confidence, self empowerment techniques, learning to understand ways in which we self sabotage and ways in which we can improve our personal growth and wellness.
10. Interpersonal Health
This includes the relationships one has with another person, relationship, family, community, and the types of social support included in their life. This approach may include learning how to identify unhealthy relationships, and healthy skills such as assertiveness, healthy communication styles, healthy support. You’ll learn healthy boundary-setting to improve relationships. Individual and Conjoint Relational and Family sessions available, adding additional healthy support in the community to treatment planning to meet new people outside of therapy and build new support systems.
11. Environmental Health
This relates to both the environment one lives in and also the external environments that they are around them in their world (work, home, school, community, family, friends, drugs, unhealthy people places and things). Our therapeutic approach might include learning what is healthy and unhealthy in your personal and professional environment, your home, the people, places, and things in your life that may be impacting your ability to feel safe in your environment, self empowerment through self defense, and active shooter training.
12. Breathing, Self-Expression, Being Heard
This relates to Life as without Breath you are not living. It also relates to the importance of being able to express yourself freely and be heard by others. This approach may include breathwork and breathwork meditations, combined with other techniques to regulate health breathing. Experiential sessions, for creative ways to learn to express oneself outside of traditional talk therapy, learning how to express oneself openly and honestly, providing space for clients to be heard and teaching ways to better communicate so that they MAY be heard by the people in their lives they feel do not hear them.
13. Play, Laughing, Fun, and Feeling Alive and Free
This perhaps is the reason it is so important to be able to be healthy in the other areas mentioned. Without being healthy in these other areas it makes this category very difficult to maintain. Play is how we grow. Laughing, fun, feeling alive, and freedom are perhaps the meaning of life as they are essential for self-love and growth. Utilizing experiential exercises to use play, laughter, present focused exercises to teach clients to live in the moment, providing opportunities for clients to utilize innovative ways to learn healthy play, laughing, fun, and ways to feel alive to move beyond surviving and to move forward living. Mind-body connection techniques, movement and music therapy exercises, group activities to build confidence and overcome fears of not being accepted, team building exercises, using therapeutic games and other tools to create opportunities for these skills to be developed.
