Domestic Abuse Therapists in Montgomery, TX

Rise Counseling and Wellness offers individual therapy, family and couples therapy and play therapy for young children. We strive to reduce the impact of mental illness, family conflict, and trauma, increasing the resilience of our clients and the world we live in. We believe each person has the innate ability to rise above and grow from life's challenges. We are committed to being your partner in your journey to overcome. We approach therapy from a systemic perspective, recognizing the significance of generational experiences, society and culture on your life today.

Are you feeling anxious or depressed? Are you experiencing grief over a major loss? Are you dealing with past trauma? I would love to work with you. I have had many personal and professional experiences that can help me help you. I believe that the only things we truly have control over in our life are our own thoughts and behaviors. It is because of this belief that I use cognitive-behavioral therapy. I teach thought stopping, cognitive restructuring, relaxation, mindfulness, grounding, calming techniques and am also a fully trained EMDR Therapist. Call me to see if we would make a good therapeutic team.

My focus is to help provide peace, lower stressful anxiety, depression and other areas of discomfort and build self-confidence. Life is needs to be happy and easily adjustable. Therapies and techniques/modalities are used to help relieve the unwanted self-defeating negative thoughts. Positive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solutions Focused therapies plus more are utilized to help replace the old with new creative life goals. Equine Assisted, Sand Tray and talk therapies will help to recreate new thoughts and feelings: EMDR, guided meditation; self calming; and recognizing self defeating thoughts all spiritually based.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor I received my Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of North Texas and my Master's degree in Counseling from Sam Houston State University. I have 39 years experience working with adolescences, individuals, couples and families through the educational system and now in marriage and family counseling. I am currently seeing clients virtually at my own practice, Genette Stanton Therapy, LLC in Montgomery, TX.

Brainwashed by our pain-avoidant culture, our egos try to boss our minds, bodies and souls around. “Quit crying.” “Get over it already.” But society's push to hurry up and get over it is inadvertently creating the pain paradox; people are being forced to try to “heal” in the trappings of shameful isolation. But if we still ourselves and allow our deepest, truest inner voice to be heard over the ego’s tyrannical whispers, we will come to realize that human suffering is NORMAL and not something to get over. Pain, no matter how subtle or severe, is a form of energy that demands to be acknowledged, befriended and even accomodated.

Anxiety, depression, grief, & chronic pain are experienced by many people. We know that continual stress negatively impacts our health, families, relationships, & jobs. Counseling can help you release the hurt, anger, pain, & sorrow to reveal the amazing you that has been hidden beneath the emotional turmoil. Integrative & non-pharmaceutical interventions, including learning new coping skills, support you in finding the path to the person you want to be. Counseling is a journey well worth taking, offering gifts in the process, often including revitalizing new meaning & purpose in your life.

Perhaps you are seeking a path of self-exploration or struggling with anxiety, depression or low self-esteem. You may need some additional time to talk and make some sense out the barriers to your personal goals. Or you may desire to learn practical skills to cope with your pain. Every person is unique, which means that our time together would be tailored to your particular needs based on cultural background, family dynamics and personal values. Either way, I will be present with you and assist you as you journey toward a meaningful life.

Are you overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, insomnia, substance use disorders and other challenges due to past or present trauma? Do you feel stuck in a cycle of dysfunction and defeat? I want you to know there is hope and YOU can Break out of the Cycle. I want to partner with you on your healing journey. You can heal from trauma and become a healing catalyst for yourself, your family and community. Empowered Wellness can be your legacy.

Is it time for a reset? Do you look at your life and say, "what a mess, I am stuck!"? Maybe you've tried counseling before or maybe have been afraid to ask for help. I provide a sacred space to notice without labeling things as good, bad, right or wrong. As we sit with uncomfortable emotions, we notice where those feeling are showing up in the body, then we can change how we respond to them and handle them differently. This is where true shift happens.

I believe we are all created for relationship, with a deep desire to be known and loved. It is in these relationships where our deepest contentment, as well as pain, resides. The experiences we have had and the relationships we have known are intricately tied to who we have become. During therapy, we will look at early life experiences with the purpose of increasing awareness of how these past experiences are impacting current life quality with ourselves and others.