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
My experiences include working with survivors of domestic violence, extensive safety planning and facilitating domestic abuse support groups. I have an in depth knowledge of working with children, teens and their families within the school system that present with behavioral issues, trauma, anxiety, self- harming behaviors as well as other issues.Treatment approaches I use are eclectic and base...
My approach to counseling is driven by respect, openness, and collaboration. I believe that we are neither all good nor all bad but rather a mixture of both. I work to build a relationship that cultivates insight and growth, together finding the parts of you that challenge, confuse, or frustrate you. I enjoy counseling adolescents (13+) and adults. I am currently only doing sessions via a secur...
Is your child struggling with behavioral or emotional problems that are interfering with his or her functioning? Parenting is a difficult task and as parents we want to feel competent and successful. Witnessing your child in distress can result in feelings of helplessness, shame, anger, or discouragement. My goal is to provide parents with support, guidance, and practical strategies to strength...
Feeling sad, mad, anxious, confused, overwhelmed, lonely, stuck? In my private practice I see individuals and couples dealing with depression and anxiety, life transitions including aging, retirement, illness, divorce, death of spouse, empty nest and career transitions as well as domestic violence, and parenting. I utilize a variety of theoretical orientations and interventions all tailored to ...
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with experience in treating a variety of clinical issues, including severe and persistent mental illness, anxiety, depression, and trauma related disorders. I work primarily with adolescents and adults, providing individual therapy in a comfortable outpatient setting. I also enjoy working with mothers suffering with postpartum mood disorders, or who are jus...
Confidentiality, compassion, creativity and expertise are elements I bring to every client session. Understanding that each person is unique, my 20+ years of experience and broad range of training in mental and emotional healthcare give me both versatility and adaptability; allowing me to meet you where you are in your life today. Through the building of a mutual trust, we'll explore the nature...
We sometimes feel isolated or alone when dealing with life's challenges. Whether feeling overwhelmed, frustrated by certain relationships in our lives, or trying to cope with a particularly challenging situation, I will help to create a safe, nurturing and non-judgmental environment to discuss these issues. Together we will explore your feelings, attitudes and perceptions towards these challeng...
Each of us has the potential to thrive but encounters obstacles to living freely and fully. These obstacles may be situational, environmental, emotional, or may be the consequence of habits acquired under stress. Sometimes you may just feel alone or stuck, unable to live the life you imagine for yourself and unsure why this is. I believe that you deserve enjoyment, love, and satisfaction from y...
Therapy is a wonderful way to look at yourself with an objective witness. I meet you where you are and allow you to do the work with me supporting you along the journey. We create a safe space for this to happen and I ask you to come ready and willing to do the work. I use hope so we have something to look forward too. I use compassion to meet everyone so they know "safe enough" exists. I use...
I hope to work with you in deepening connection and intimacy in your relationships and in building a more meaningful, fulfilling life. During crisis or a difficult impasse, I help couples find and develop safe refuge in each other, and make sense out of distressing challenges. We work together to create more satisfying resolutions. With over 30 years of experience, I am the only...
My approach includes being that "someone" that can assist you on your journey toward a happier and mentally healthier future; including realizing your own potential, coping with life's many stressors, and working productively toward contributing to relationships and your community. In a safe and respectful environment we can journey together to identify and work through past and present...
I have been working as a clinician in the mental health field for 16 years. I have experience and expertise in working with adolescents and adults. I can help address issues related to: depression, anxiety, personal relationships, as well as work and professional concerns and difficulties that arise in making transitions and life adjustments related to health, identity, and loss. I provide...
*I currently have a waitlist. Email is best for quicker response.* Life is a series of steps we take, shifting from one level to another, but this journey is not always lateral or forward-moving. This is true throughout our lives, through transitions of all kinds, whether they be emotional, spiritual, mental, or physical in nature. It can be surprising and daunting when life's blueprints don't...
I provide a safe and caring relationship. With trust as our foundation, together we explore what is calling for clarity, change, or comfort. I help you to identify and disengage from old destructive patterns, habits, and beliefs. I also help you to find and anchor new ways of being your authentic and joyful self in the world. If we are in harmony with ourselves we are much better equipped to...
The interesting thing about a pandemic is that it forces us to approach life differently. It gives us new perspective, encourages us to reevaluate our priorities, and causes us to approach relationships in new ways. We are all trying to figure this out together. Whatever rules we thought applied before are likely irrelevant, so what are the next steps that we take? What kind of life do you want...
