RISE: Unlock Desire, Create Security
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RISE: Unlock Desire & Create Security

If you are tired of repeating painful relationship patterns, getting stuck in conflict, feeling disconnected, or struggling with intimacy or desire, RISE is for you.

RISE is a 4-week therapeutic journey designed to help you understand the deeper patterns shaping conflict, connection, sex, and desire, so you can stop repeating old cycles and create a more secure and honest way of relating.

Whether you are single, dating, partnered, or healing from heartbreak, this group helps you break familiar patterns and create a different experience of intimacy and desire.

What Changes in RISE

Inside RISE, you will begin to:

  • See the attachment patterns shaping how you pursue, shut down, over-give, protect yourself, and repeat the same painful dynamics in relationships
  • Build the capacity to stay grounded when intimacy feels vulnerable, instead of spiralling, withdrawing, or repeating the same fight
  • Understand your desire landscape, including what opens you, what shuts you down, and what gets in the way of pleasure, connection, and eroticism
  • Navigate differences in desire with more honesty, compassion, and less shame or blame
  • Communicate more clearly and stay connected through the moments that usually pull you apart
  • Create simple relational rituals that support trust, intimacy, play, and a more secure experience of love over time
Kelly McDonnell - Founder of Bliss Counselling
Dates, Location and Coverage

📅 Wednesday’s  from April 29 to May 20, 7:00 to 8:15 PM
💻 Location: Zoom Online, join from anywhere in Ontario
👥 Format: A thoughtfully sized group designed to support meaningful reflection, connection, and personalized attention
💰 Investment per session: $150 per individual, $200 per couple

RISE by Bliss™ is a four-part therapeutic journey for those who are ready to stop repeating painful relationship patterns and begin relating differently.
  1. RECOGNIZE: Trace the Blueprint. Understand how attachment, nervous system responses, and the science of desire shape the ways you pursue connection, protect yourself, and pull away in relationships.
  2. INVENTORY: Name the Narrative. Identify the beliefs, protective strategies, and relational patterns that may be standing between you and the relationship you want.
  3. STRENGTHEN: Move from Insight to Action. Insight alone does not change a relationship, practice does. Learn nervous system regulation skills and practical tools to communicate more clearly, stay grounded in conflict, ask for what you need, and repair disconnection with care.
  4. EASE: Create Your New Normal. This is where you begin integrating what you have learned into the way you love, communicate, and connect, so intimacy can feel more secure, steady, and sustainable over time.

If you are ready to stop repeating what is not working and begin relating with more clarity, confidence, and connection, fill out the form below to join RISE.

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Michaela Pries-Klassen
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