I’m Ari.
Rising Resiliently
I offer two different kinds of support, and these are the differences:
As a licensed clinical social worker (Oregon), I provide mental health treatment for individuals and couples. This is clinical care for things like disordered eating, body image struggles, anxiety, and the deeper psychological work of healing your relationship with food and your body. This is therapy. It requires a diagnosis informed, individualized treatment plan, and it is covered under mental health licensure and confidentiality standards.
As a mental performance coach, I work with athletes on the mindset side of performance. Such as confidence, focus, motivation, goal-setting, and mental resilience under pressure. This is coaching, not therapy. It is forward-facing and performance oriented, and it does not require a clinical diagnosis, continued assessment, or treatment plan.
Where they can overlap:
For athletes who want support with fitness, body image, and food, especially those navigating the intersection of performance and self-worth, I can offer a blended approach depending on what is needed. Sometimes that means clinical treatment. Sometimes it means performance coaching. Sometimes (in the state of OR) it is both, offered as clearly separate services with clear boundaries between them.
I created Rising Resiliently, LLC after years of treating mental health disorders at higher levels of care. I became a skilled clinician in crisis management and ongoing risk assessment, and I noticed an area in mental health care that was continually missed, specifically when approaching eating disorder treatment. I wanted to address the intersections of disordered eating, poor body image, difficult relationships with food, and sports and exercise as a part of the recovery treatment plan.
So Rising Resiliently is just that!
Not sure whether therapy or mental performance coaching
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