Rising Lotus Counseling marks 12 years of providing compassionate, accessible mental health support for children and families, expanding its range and resources virtually under founder Sarah Gugluizza’s leadership.
— Rising Lotus Counseling, a small private practice that provides a safe space for children, teens, and families, is celebrating 12 years of supporting families and individuals with emotional, behavioral, academic, and psychiatric concerns. Founded and led by Sarah Gugluizza, Rising Lotus Counseling began as a solo private practice with a powerful vision to make children, teens and their families feel seen and heard while facing challenges. The practice focuses on treating youth mental health, while equipping parents with vital tools to help support emotional regulation and communication at home and in social settings.
Gugluizza has been the voice behind every family, helping them rise above their challenges. With over 19 years of experience, she is changing the way children’s mental health is viewed. With statistics rising in children’s mental health, that comes with many questions for every family: What do they do? How can they help their child? Who is the best expert to go to? Gugluizza says, “Every family has a unique story.”
With so many questions, there is not always a light at the end of the tunnel. More often than not, families do not want to go to a clinic. This can be a struggle and create an unsettling feeling. Gugluizza saw this as a major challenge for families. While she has been growing Rising Lotus Counseling, providing a safe space meant making therapy more accommodating, offering therapy virtually by telehealth where they can log in for support from home, or any other place where they feel most comfortable.
By treating children and adults in a space like home, that feels most comfortable to them, it creates a sense of trust: trust with who is helping them, trust with how the process will turn out, and trust that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Many barriers have arisen, which have led to mental health care not being accessible to everyone. This leads families down a narrow path of not getting the help they need. Gugluizza has written and published a book, Goodnight My Wiggle Worm. This book is designed to help children and families with bedtime routines and emotion regulation.
Bedtime can be a very difficult time to navigate. Children often struggle with switching from day to night. The book focuses on how to calm down and relax while encouraging meaningful interactions between children and their families. Parents can often feel overwhelmed when putting their children to bed. It can be hard for children to understand that when night comes, it is time to slow down and prepare to sleep. The book provides tools to help children understand the importance of calming down and relaxing while helping parents discover different ways to support their children in settling into a bedtime routine. There are even helpful skill pages included to guide children and their families through easy interventions to use in the evenings or other times they need to regulate.
Rising Lotus Counseling has grown significantly over the past 12 years, from a solo practice to now operating as a multidisciplinary group practice serving families throughout New York. Gugluizza is working to change the way children’s mental health is viewed and ensure families know they are never alone. In a world where many things are easily accessible but mental health care is not, Rising Lotus Counseling will continue to grow and become more accessible to its clients.
As children’s mental health is a core focus for Rising Lotus Counseling, there is another area of care that the practice supports: perinatal mental health disorders. Perinatal mental health disorders have often been overlooked. As many women try to navigate pregnancy, it can bring forward many emotions they have never experienced before, and sometimes those feelings can feel unexplainable.
Perinatal mental health disorders can lead to sadness, panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, and unwanted thoughts. What should be an exciting time can become a very scary and difficult experience for many women. Gugluizza has focused many years of her career on helping women understand how they feel and how to manage these emotions and experiences.
Perinatal mental health disorders can last for up to two years after childbirth. While finding their feet and learning to take care of their baby, many women have also returned to work. From sleepless nights to working long days, this can be extremely stressful. However, knowing there is someone there who understands and listens to how they feel can help reduce the weight on their shoulders.
As Rising Lotus Counseling celebrates 12 years in business, its continued growth reflects a commitment to making mental health care more accessible, compassionate, and family-centered. Through clinical support, educational resources such as Goodnight My Wiggle Worm, and a focus on meeting clients where they feel most comfortable, Sarah Gugluizza and her team are helping reshape how children, families, and mothers access mental health care.
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