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.
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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 provide psychotherapy in Seattle and coaching for clients around the world. Special focus on couples, sexuality and cultural adjustment issues. With more than 30 years of experience, my approach is based on your strengths, focused on empowering you, centered on your goals, and connects you with other resources. I was born in Turkey and have lived and worked in the US, Turkey and Europe. I...
I practice cognitive behavioral therapy. This framework will allow us to help you to change the way you are thinking about your situation, your behaviors that may be affecting your situation, and to make important life decisions. While I believe in being supportive, I will also challenge your thinking at times to help you to see more options for yourself or your family that you haven't previous...
Life can be confusing and overwhelming. Most of us want to do the right thing. We want good relationships with others. We want to feel happy and live well. However, we often have unwanted baggage in our lives that gets in our way. We have habits, patterns, and behaviors we don't want. Thoughts, fears, and anxieties that hold us back. Secrets and addictions that can paralyze us. Sometimes we fin...
I have extensive experience working with traumatic bereavement due to the death of someone to suicide, homicide, accident or any other sudden unexpected death as well as grief resulting from a wide array of losses. Additionally, people seek me out for assistance overcoming challenges arising from trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness and help navigating life transitions. I work with adul...
Do you find yourself in the midst of life changes? Transitions occur throughout life but at times everyone finds they may need additional support and guidance. My practice specializes in helping women find balance in their life and the strength to cope. Changes can include graduation, job searches/retirement, marriage/divorce, infertility/pregnancy, chronic illness, grief and loss. I utilize a...
Trauma. It's been bugging you. The holidays came and went. Triggers happened and you're still recovering. Life feels hectic. You've been meaning to take time to care for yourself, but it just hasn't happened yet. You're determined now; you've made the resolution to take care of yourself...AND you know you want some help doing it. What if you could connect to someone who could truly see how you'...
My practice is devoted to supporting individuals, couples and their kids. If you want to do the work, improved communication and mutual understanding will help you make for a better future. Too many relationships function on "implicit" understandings. This results in feeling resentful, unappreciated or unloved. By learning to make our relationship dynamics more "explicit" we can work through ou...
I approach counseling and therapy as a collaborative, healing relationship. I am genuine, funny and thoughtful. I work with adults in all stages of life. One area of speciality includes supporting women and their partners as they transition to parenthood. I see parents individually or with their infants depending on need. Another area of expertise is trauma treatment. I utilize many different w...
Aloha! I offer my clients compassion, openness, and empathy. I value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and evaluate how my clients' individual and family experiences affect their lives. Working through a client-centered and humanistic lens, I work to help my clients better understand themselves, cultivate their strengths, gain insight into their challenges, and make the changes they think a...
Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, past abuse, trauma, PTSD, spirituality, marriage or family stresses? I provide individual, couple's, and family therapy, in person or via a HIPPA compliant Telehealth platform utilizing a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy framework, with cognitive-behavioral, and other therapeutic approaches tailored to your specific needs. Learning proven communication...
In my blended practice of mental health counseling and art therapy, I work with families, adults, and children, supporting them in identifying resources and strengths to regain emotional health. In sessions, we work together using the approach that best suits my clients' needs--- art therapy using hands-on creative projects to gently encourage self-expression and gain insight; cognitive behavio...
ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS FOR ONLINE COUNSELING EVENINGS AND WEEKEND TIMES AVAILABLE I help adults, couples, children, and adolescents transform their lives for the better through individual, couples, and family therapy. You are not alone, and don't have to carry life challenges by yourself. I help clients cultivate greater relationships with partners and children, and better relationships with...
**I AM CURRENTLY UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANY NEW CLIENTS.** I enjoy working with diversified populations with a wide array of problems and obstacles. I enjoy having the privilege to help clients overcome them and achieve their goals. I love helping people build strength to self-advocate and let their voices be heard through healthy communication. I work to provide space for clients to talk freely and...
Individual therapy with children, adolescents, and adults. Couples therapy. Family therapy. I also administer a wide variety of psychological evaluations....
My priority is to help you find peace and transformation in whatever capacity that means for you. Whether you are looking to manage anxiety or depression, address trauma or self-esteem issues, we will work together to find an outcome that meets your needs, values and highest self. My areas of specialization include: anxiety, self-esteem, trauma, life transitions, compassion fatigue/secondary...
