Rise Up Counseling Center

02/12/2025

We are so excited to announce that Jasmine Knaus, LAC is joining the Rise Up Counseling Team! Jasmine has spent the last decade in the nonprofit sector, where she has helped numerous families through life’s most difficult seasons, and she brings this real-world experience into her therapy practice with teens and young adults. She is passionate about working with this population as they come to understand who they are and find their purpose amidst the unique challenges they face. With warmth, connection, and genuine care, Jasmine provides a grounded, nonjudgmental space for her clients to experience emotional growth and build the resilience needed to grow up in today’s chaotic world.

02/03/2025

Excited to share an article written about Rise Up Counseling Center and my upcoming speaking engagement. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/basking-ridge/sections/health-and-wellness/articles/local-therapist-wants-us-all-to-let-go-of-perfectionism

02/03/2025

Excited to share this article about Rise Up Counseling Center!

BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Therapist Erin Bennington, MSW, LCSW, has been working with high school and college students from Basking Ridge for the past seven years, and she sees a familiar pattern of...

12/23/2023

Holidays can certainly have many layers of mixed emotions that can frequently fluctuate from minute to minute, moment to moment. Allowing ourselves to become comfortable with what feels like conflicting emotions often because the relief within the heaviness.

12/08/2023

December holiday grief feelings…so poignant!

11/22/2023

With so many mixed grief emotions that exist with the upcoming this quote is the reminder that our emotions can be this AND that. We can experience good and hard simultaneously and there is such emotional freedom in giving space for both!

10/24/2023

What powerful and true words!

05/29/2023

Remembering those who gave their lives for our freedom.

05/09/2023

Unfortunately in my grief work I have found that grief is awkward and uncomfortable for many leaving those grieving feeling the need to rush through their grief or not fully share the deepths of their pain because of not wanting others to feel uncomfortable. Grief requires us and others to face our mortality and many of us don’t do that well. If you are a person experiencing grief don’t let others dictate your grief journey and what your process looks like. And for those supporting grieves allow yourself to be okay with discomfort and discomfort can often grow compassion.

04/02/2023

Feeling this in so many ways this week. I often encourage my clients that they indeed are capable of doing hard things, however sometimes, many times we need to also acknowledge that saying that statement is easier than living it. It is empowering to believe we can do hard things (which we can!) but also doing hard things is just plain hard!

03/31/2023

So often in grief and transition journeys there is a struggle to allow two seemingly opposite emotions to coexist. And yet what grief so often teaches us is that we can feel varying and what often feel like conflicting emotions in a given minute, hour or day. There can be freedom in allowing ourselves to not be conflicted by our emotions but rather giving them space to come and go as they need. Grief and joy can coexist!

03/30/2023

What a powerful and poignant quote. Grief, loss, and painful transitions are hard and scary and yet faith and grace speak into those hard spaces and don’t make them less hard but they do give us the courage to lean into the hard.