“As I was creating Rising Phoenix Counseling Services, LLC, I wanted to create a place of healing that is both symbolic and honors the specific challenges associated with choosing the path of growth and healing. During this search, I decided on the idea of the phoenix as it is a symbol of integrity, beauty, virtue, grace, and power. The phoenix is caught within a cycle of death and rebirth as they have to burn down in order to rise above the ashes into something new and beautiful. It has been said that the phoenix takes information from their surroundings and integrates it with their internal process by increased awareness. This is how I see the process of growth after trauma, with every challenge we can make a choice to either allow it to consume us or we can take the gifts into the next chapter of our life. We can never forget or change what has happened to us in the past, but we can allow that experience to forever change us in a healthy and positive way. No matter what the challenge in your life currently, we are here to support you in accessing hope and igniting your ability to rise anew.”

-Sarah May Eilertson, LPC, NCC, CETP