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
Navigating this thing called Life is truly a trip! My mission is to support you to have more effective communication and coping skills, develop an uncompromising and joyful sense of self, develop stronger life skills, increased healthy coping with life transitions and heal traumas so that you can be the person you need to be. I specialize in: Identity (who are you) • trauma (childhood and adult...
My specialty is helping young adults and adults gain more control of how to react to anxiety and to understand it at a deeper level. I work with individuals experiencing a variety of anxieties, including Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive tendencies. Guided by the science of Neurocounseling, I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness and a Person-Centered,...
To me, psychotherapy isn't about being SICK; it's about being BETTER. It's about getting out of your own way. It's about not taking responsibility for things you can't control, and about owning your own thoughts and feelings. It's about being able to tell the difference between logical thoughts and irrational feelings. Therapy offers no guarantees, but offers an opportunity to understand and be...
You have always craved control over your life. Of course there are uncertainties but that is why you are always planning for the worst case scenario. You think of everything that can and probably will go wrong and try to figure out a way around these barriers. This constant analysis of potential threats makes it very hard to enjoy life. Others tell you to "just relax" as if it were that simple!...
Most of us were taught that gender, like sexual orientation, was binary. We now know this is false. Gender non-conforming, genderqueer, non-binary, agender; gender IS fluid and exists ON a SPECTRUM. Many trans people have been afraid to embrace their true gender due to societal and familial ramifications. We are entering a new age when the need for trans people to remain in the shadows to "fit ...
Are you looking for a therapist with over 25 years of experience who understands the unique and complex psychological issues associated with VISION LOSS? I work with children, adults, caregivers and families who are adjusting to blindness or partial-vision. My clients have lost their vision due to congenital blindness, a progressive eye condition or even from a traumatic event. Together we...
Are you highly sensitive and find our overstimulating world difficult to manage? Perhaps you compulsively pick your skin or pull out your hair in an attempt to soothe your nervous system. Do past traumas interfere with your ability to be happy? Life is too short to be overwhelmed, anxious, sad or ashamed most of the time. Trauma doesn’t need to ravage our lives. I want you to be free of emotion...
I believe that with the right therapeutic relationship, an individual can discover their true self and become empowered to face life's hardest challenges. People often seek therapy when they are feeling stuck in some sort of way. Challenges are a normal part of life, and it is the way the we respond to these events that can determine how they will affect us. I believe that people have an innate...
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, my emphasis is meeting clients where they are and providing the type of support to assist them with overcoming challenges that have led to negative experiences. For the past 18 years, I have worked with children and their families to seek solutions to social, behavioral, and emotional issues that impact the home and school environment. One of my primary goa...
Love flowers? Want counseling? Then FHT is for you! More specifically, if you’re struggling with self-worth, self-esteem, negative self-talk, trauma recovery, depression or anxiety, you’re in the right place. I’ll create a safe space for you to share your fears, worries and negative self-talk. Then we will address how to get you out of this endless cycle in order to move forward and be who you...
Now Accepting New Clients! My goal as a therapist is to help support clients to make sustainable and healthy changes to create the life they want to live. My expertise are in working with adults who may be seeking self-help in areas of growth and personal development, and who may be experiencing changes in mood, new job transitions, and relationship conflicts. Additionally, I work with school-a...
Hello, I have a great passion for serving Youth, Adults and Families. Sometimes we are faced with adversities or changes within our life that can be difficult to deal with and/or ask for help. School, work, relationship and life expectations may cause us to feel stressed, overwhelmed, disconnected or just overall tired. When this happens, we often experience an increase in symptoms of depressio...
My hope is to create a relationship between the therapist and the individual that fosters positive and lasting change. To that end, I work patiently to ensure a sense of trust and safety. In addition, I feel I work well with individuals who go to therapy to be challenged, to be "unstuck." In these cases, I can be supportive while also being firm and direct. My approach is sensitive to the...
People seek out therapy for a wide variety of reasons. Sometimes, the issues they are struggling with start out minor and they want help before the issues become too difficult. On other occasions, the problems have become unmanageable and dealing with them alone becomes too daunting. Some of those personal issues include anxiety, depression, stress at home, school and/or work, emotional...
Life gets hard. Many times you may want to give up and don't know which way to turn. This ministry focuses on freedom, restoring hope and purpose. Our goal is for every individual to respond fully to God out of who He created and redeemed them to be. Pain, depression and life patterns are obstacles that can stand in the way of growth. Our goal is to to remove those things that are currently...
