Rising Up

10/23/2026

🎈 We’re making more space for one-to-one support.

Rising Up has expanded our team and our adult outpatient counseling services, alongside our intensive outpatient mental health program (IOP).

We offer individual counseling for adults seeking support with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, and trauma.

Our approaches include:
• Internal Family Systems
• Brainspotting
• Nervous system regulation strategies
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and more

Connect with our intake team to learn about individual counseling and find the support that fits your needs.

📞 508-388-5833
🌐 www.RisingUp-IOP.com

10/22/2026

You don’t need the perfect words to reach out.

“Could we talk for a few minutes?”
“I’ve had a difficult week.”
“I could use some company.”

Choose someone you trust. You can share as much or as little as feels comfortable—and you can ask for listening without advice.

Rising Up’s virtual intensive outpatient program offers a space for adults to receive therapeutic support and connect with others. Contact our team to learn more.

10/20/2026

IOP or PHP? If your client needs more than weekly therapy, understanding the difference can help you identify the next level of support.

Rising Up offers both options for adults across Massachusetts:

IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program)
3–5 days per week
3 hours per day

PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program)
5 days per week
5 hours per day

Both provide clients with more structure and therapeutic contact than traditional weekly outpatient care. Programming includes 90-minute sessions and may incorporate group therapy, individual therapy, family support, and psychiatric services, with case management available as an additional service.

We’ve also expanded when and where clients can participate.

☀️ Daytime programming
🌙 Evening programming
📅 Saturday programming
💻 Virtual access across Massachusetts

For clients who need a dedicated space to participate, our Buzzards Bay computer lab is also available for them to come in person and access virtual programming.

Our goal is to make stepping up to a higher level of mental health care more workable while collaborating with the professionals already supporting the client.

Rising Up is currently accepting referrals across Massachusetts, and we work with insurance. Inquire with our team for coverage details.

Not sure whether IOP or PHP is the right fit for your client? Contact our team to discuss their needs.

📞 508-388-5833
📧 [email protected]
🌐 risingup-iop.com

10/18/2026

Healing from grief doesn’t have to mean letting go of the person, relationship, or life you lost.

Grief can be painful in ways that are easy to recognize.

But it can also look like numbness.

Exhaustion.

Anxiety that wasn’t there before.

Feeling disconnected from everyone around you.

Going through the motions of your life without really feeling present in it.

Or carrying guilt and “what if” thoughts that you can’t seem to put down.

And grief isn’t limited to death. It can follow pregnancy loss, infertility, divorce, a major life transition, the loss of an identity or future you expected, or a loss that is ambiguous or still unfolding.

Our latest article, “A Different Way Through Grief: Healing Without Letting Go,” explores what it can mean to heal without asking yourself to “get over” what happened.

We look at the ways grief can affect your thoughts, body, nervous system, memories, and sense of safety, as well as how approaches including CBT, DBT, EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork can support different parts of the grieving process.

The goal isn’t to erase grief.

It’s to help create room for both things to be true: you can remain connected to what you have lost while gradually reconnecting with the life that is still yours to live.

Grief doesn’t follow a straight line. It doesn’t follow a timeline either. Some days, it feels sharp and overwhelming. Other days, it feels quieter… like a heaviness you carry everywhere you go. Sometimes it comes in waves. Sometimes it feels like it never really leaves. Grief can look like cr

10/15/2026

When life feels overwhelming, even everyday tasks can feel like a lot.

Try a brief pause: notice the support beneath your body, look around your surroundings, and choose one manageable next step.

That step might be eating something, stepping outside, or asking someone for help. It doesn’t have to be impressive to matter.

Interested in more structured mental health support? Contact Rising Up to learn about our virtual intensive outpatient program.

10/12/2026

Mental health isn’t only about what you’re thinking. What’s happening in your body matters, too.

In this clip, Rising Up Clinical Director Kolby Andrade, LICSW, explains why our approach brings traditional and integrative methods together.

Approaches like CBT and DBT can help clients recognize thought patterns, challenge unhelpful beliefs, regulate emotions, and build practical skills.

But trauma and chronic stress can also affect the nervous system and how someone experiences stress in their body.

That’s why Rising Up takes a whole-person approach.

Alongside evidence-based therapies like CBT and DBT, our programming incorporates practices that support body awareness and nervous system regulation, including mindfulness and energy psychology.

It isn’t about choosing one approach over another. It’s about giving clients multiple ways to understand and work with what they’re experiencing.

Rising Up offers structured mental health programming virtually across Massachusetts, with daytime, evening, and Saturday options available.

Accepting new clients and referrals. We work with insurance.

10/11/2026

“I love my baby. So why don’t I feel the way I thought I would?”

Postpartum depression and anxiety don’t always look like constant sadness.

Sometimes it’s feeling disconnected from your baby.

Feeling numb when you expected to feel joy.

Missing your old life and then feeling guilty for missing it.

Becoming overwhelmed by tasks that used to feel simple.

Feeling anxious, irritable, or constantly on edge.

Having intrusive thoughts that scare you.

Or wondering why everyone else seems to be handling parenthood better than you are.

Postpartum brings enormous changes to your body, sleep, hormones, nervous system, relationships, routines, and sense of identity. And when depression, anxiety, birth trauma, grief, or previous mental health challenges are part of the picture, “just pushing through” may not be enough.

Our latest article explores what postpartum mental health struggles can actually feel like and the different ways treatment can support recovery, including CBT, DBT, trauma-focused work, EFT, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and nervous system regulation.

It also talks about something parents may desperately need to hear: struggling with postpartum mental health does not erase the love you have for your baby or determine what kind of parent you are.

If you’ve been waiting to feel like yourself again, we hope this article gives you a better understanding of what may be happening and what support can look like.

No one really prepares you for this part. The part where you finally have your baby… and instead of feeling full, you feel empty. Or overwhelmed. Or disconnected. Or like you made a mistake you can’t undo. You might find yourself thinking: “Why doesn’t this feel the way it’s supposed to?.....

10/08/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of a difficult day is finding the words for what you’re carrying.

Give yourself a moment to ask: “What feels hardest today?” You don’t need to solve everything at once. Start by acknowledging what deserves attention, care, or support.

At Rising Up, we believe you don’t have to carry it alone. Contact our team to learn about our virtual intensive outpatient program and discuss whether it may fit your needs.

10/06/2026

Sometimes a client has done a lot of work in therapy and still feels stuck.

They can tell you where the pattern came from.

They recognize it when it happens.

They understand why they respond the way they do.

But understanding something intellectually doesn’t necessarily mean a person can respond differently when anxiety, trauma responses, difficult emotions, or relationship patterns become activated.

This is one reason experiential approaches can add another dimension to mental health treatment.

Drama Therapy combines elements of a traditional support or process group with active embodiment, role-play, storytelling, improvisation, and creative expression.

Within Rising Up’s Drama Therapy group, clients have opportunities to work with personal narratives, family and interpersonal patterns, emotional awareness, perspective-taking, communication, coping, and problem-solving.

The goal isn’t performance.

It’s creating another therapeutic pathway for clients to explore patterns, practice different responses, and work toward bringing therapeutic skills into their daily lives.

For outpatient therapists, this can provide additional support when a client has developed insight but may benefit from more structure, repetition, group support, and opportunities to practice.

Rising Up is currently accepting referrals across Massachusetts, and we work with insurance. Inquire with our team for coverage details.

To discuss whether Rising Up may be appropriate for your client:

📞 508-388-5833
📧 [email protected]
🌐 risingup-iop.com

10/05/2026

Something new is coming to Rising Up this October: Drama Therapy. 🎭

Sometimes talking about what you’re experiencing is only one part of the therapeutic process.

You may understand why you shut down during conflict. You may recognize the relationship patterns you keep repeating. You may know where your anxiety or trauma responses come from.

And you may still feel stuck.

That’s one reason we’re excited to introduce Drama Therapy at Rising Up beginning this October.

Drama Therapy is a form of expressive arts therapy that incorporates role-play, storytelling, improvisation, creative expression, and active embodiment into the therapeutic process. It can help clients explore emotions, relationships, difficult experiences, and behavioral patterns in ways that go beyond talking about them.

And despite the name, you do not need any acting or theater experience to participate. Drama Therapy 12-Week.docx

Our 12-week Drama Therapy group will explore areas including:

• Emotional awareness and self-expression
• Personal narratives and meaning-making
• Family and interpersonal patterns
• Perspective-taking and empathy
• Coping and problem-solving
• Communication and active listening
• Integrating therapeutic skills into everyday life

Drama Therapy is another way we’re continuing to build a mental health program that recognizes that healing doesn’t always happen through conversation alone.

Drama Therapy begins at Rising Up this October.

We’re currently accepting new clients across Massachusetts and work with insurance. Inquire with our team for coverage details.

📞 508-388-5833
📧 [email protected]
🌐 risingup-iop.com