out of your vulnerabilities
will come your strength

-sigmund freud-

Are you struggling with issues related to trauma, grief, addiction, anxiety, or major life changes?

There comes a time when we need some help from a certified professional to help cope with many of life’s challenges. We are a group of like-minded professionals that would love to help you on your journey toward healing and self-discovery.

Life can be overwhelming and sometimes even exhausting, but we're here to guide you through any obstacles you may face. Our goal is to help you find a deeper understanding of yourself, better cope with change and distress, and be able to heal.

Who We Are

Our practice was founded in 2014 by Clinical Director Sarah Gugluizza as an individual private practice where she primarily serviced children, teens and their families in Southern Brooklyn. After the birth of her second child, and with a move to the Hudson Valley, Sarah leaped into running her practice full time. She had always imagined running her own group practice, where her and the therapists that worked alongside her could support their immediate community and one another. This became a reality in October 2019, when Sarah welcomed several therapists onboard, and

Rising Lotus Counseling was born.

Rising Lotus Counseling has been providing patients in the Hudson Valley and greater New York State with a wide range of mental health and wellness services. Our therapists engage clients in supportive therapy modalities such as play therapy, talk therapy, CBT, DBT, Solutions-Based Treatment, Creative Arts Therapy, and EMDR.

Professional backgrounds of our team members include Social Workers, Creative Arts Therapists

and blossoming graduate interns in the various disciplines of Mental Health. Therapists have specialization areas in work with children and teens, maternal mental health, trauma, substance misuse, grief, and LGBTQ+.

We offer therapy services virtually by Telehealth to meet our patients' ongoing needs and are one

of the few mental health practices servicing children and teens located in the Rondout Valley area of Ulster County.

We most closely support people in the local communities of Stone Ridge, High Falls, Marbletown,

Accord, Kerhonkson, Kingston, Woodstock, Saugerties, and New Paltz.

We provide virtual therapy sessions for patients

as long as they are located anywhere within the state of New York.