Coping mechanisms, or coping skills, are behaviors that people engage in to help them deal with difficult or stressful situations and emotions. Some can be healthy, but others aren’t.
Available Treatment Options
Therapists and counselors often work with clients to discover what coping mechanisms they’re using and determine if they are helpful. With this information, the person and the therapist can develop different coping mechanisms that are less harmful, such as meditation, exercise, journaling, drawing, or time with family.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Coping Skills
I specialize in working with youth and families who have experienced trauma, have difficulty regulating their emotions, or are having difficulties in school. I understand it can be difficult for a child or adolescent to seek mental health services; I use various techniques including play and art to help engage my clients in the counseling process. I make sure to involve clients in every step of...
I like to use empathy, humor, and some silliness to connect with clients as we work together in the therapy process. Using a strengths perspective, I work with clients to understand how their experiences shape them while working to overcome life’s challenges. I enjoy working with kids of all ages, adults, and families and have experience working with clients suffering from depression, suicidal...
I specialize in trauma (PTSD), perinatal disorders, and couples counseling using a wide range of evidence-based modalities, including both cognitive (“talk therapy”) and neuro-based approaches (EMDR, etc.). Trauma, such as childhood abuse or neglect, sexual violence, domestic violence, etc., can create chaos in many areas of your life, including relationships, parenting, work/school performance...
I believe in providing a safe space where clients can feel supported to explore their emotions, values, and beliefs. Working across multiple cultures and backgrounds, I have learned to encourage openness and creativity with compassion. Using an integrative approach, I incorporate different modalities with a focus on psychodynamic, relational, and trauma focused therapies. Seeking therapy can be...
Are you feeling overwhelmed, unsure or worried about parenting? Do you have questions about alternative discipline techniques that will work for your family? Are you currently pregnant and want more support during pregnancy to prepare for parenting? I specialize in supporting families who are feeling burnt out, exhausted or unsure what to do with the demands of parenting. I work collaboratively...
Feeling anxious, depressed, stressed or want to improve your life? Have you had a recent loss or wish to improve the relationships around you? Do you have the desire to make positive changes in your life? Are you looking for new direction, perspective, insight, seld-awareness and self-change? If you are reading this than I believe you do. Together, let’s work together to reach your goals for a...
In the counseling process, I use relationship building to develop the foundation from which to address needs. Drawing from personal experience and education, I work hard to support people as they move from where they are to where they want to be. Motivated by my deep faith, I feel that all people matter and that change is always possible. After receiving my bachelor’s degree from North Greenvil...
Gil Fernandez holds a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and Psychology and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He is trained in CBT, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, substance abuse recovery, mind-body relaxation, and cognitive restructuring with a specialization in trauma resolution and co-occurring disorders. Gil Fernandez performs Immigration Evaluations and Assessments where hi...
Too often, we find ourselves stuck—stuck in a relationship, job, life transition, or emotional experience. As your therapist, I offer a warm, genuine, and challenging space to hear and examine the unique life experiences that have led to your current emotional circumstances. My approach facilitates an environment that encourages insight, openness, and collaboration, so you feel safe enough to...
I am focused on building and strengthening the marriage relationship of my clients by cultivating the self, the marriage and the family. I strive to help my clients build this through teaching research based principles. This approach not only supports and repairs troubled marriages and committed relationships, but strengthens happy ones. I feel that I can help couples that want their relationsh...
I'm Ashley Pearson, an LCSW, with twenty years experience in clinical social work. I graduated first in my class in 1999 from Tulane University New Orleans, where I received my MSW. I love working with a variety of populations and joke that I specialize in keeping it real. I use motivational interviewing to meet a client where they are and to develop a thorough treatment plan with tangible and...
I believe that everyone deserves to make and enjoy music. We all deserve meaningful music experiences all the way to the end of life, no matter what cognitive or physical limitations might be getting in the way. That's why we provide home-based and teletherapy music therapy services for older adults and their caregivers - to bring the benefits of music to older adults who may struggle to get ou...
I believe therapy is a way to enrich life and develop a secure connection in a space free of judgement and met with compassion. I strive to provide lasting change from the inside out. I believe in treating the whole person, mind, body, & spirit. I believe it is important to pay attention to emotion, non-verbal communication, somatic expressions and non-conscious processes. Memories play a part ...
ONLINE THERAPY AVAILABLE. Sad, anxious, and stressed, you feel ready to collapse from all the pressure. The COVID19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted your life and routine. You were overwhelmed before and now you’re being pulled in many so many directions that you’re worried you’ll snap. There are so many people counting on you and you have so many responsibilities. One moment you’re a...
I have provided individual, group, couples and family counseling for intensive outpatient programs, residential treatment, drug court, and in private practice. Through these roles I have received a great deal of experience in helping clients address co-occurring disorders such as addiction and; bi-polar disorder, anxiety, depression, PTSD/trauma and personality disorders and more. I also work w...
