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 love my work and am in awe of the adults and adolescents I work with who courageously address the hurts in their life that prevent them from living more fully. It maybe a crisis in a relationship, ongoing anxiety or depression, a painful trauma, or an inner sense that things are just not right. Together we pay attention to these feelings, enabling them to be talked about, more fully experienc...
( English | 中文 ) Shuna Luk, team leader/psychotherapist of Lafayette Psychotherapy, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist supervisor on an inpatient adult psychiatric unit at NYC Bellevue Hospital, where she provides individual and group psychotherapy and creative arts therapy services to patients, and provides supervision to LCAT, LMHC, and student intern...
My name is Lacy Menzies MS, MFT Intern We all sit at the human table of life. We attempt to control and defend. Our lives get complicated really quick! Our anchors have loosened and we are caught adrift. We feel things that are uncomfortable at best, painful and horrendously frightening at worst. We can have a history of experiences that leave us suspended in midair and fighting desperately to...
Myra approaches therapy with great empathy as she journeys with clients in their healing process. Creating a safe environment where trust is built, she journeys with clients as they work at mending pieces back together through psychotherapy and soul level healing. She specializes in Sensorimotor and EMDR and believes strongly in the mind, body, soul connection of healing and wholeness. If a cli...
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - Carl R. Rogers We all go through struggles in life. Sometimes navigating these struggles alone is overwhelming and help is required. I am here to help you navigate through the struggles and work towards accomplishing your goals. Starting therapy is a brave first step towards making positive change and liv...
I am excited to be a therapist who specializes in relationships, sex, and trauma therapy. I have extensive education around sexuality education, couples therapy, trauma-informed care, and PTSD/trauma-related disorders. It is my goal to hold space for you to explore yourself, your relationship with others, and work towards living the life of satisfaction and pleasure that you desire. I am a quee...
I strive to actively listen to the concerns and needs of people seeking help for their situation. It is through the act of listening that I can learn the dynamics that each person is working through. Helping an individual overcome and work through those dynamics is what I try to do each session. This also includes helping someone create better direction for themselves by creating realistic goal...
Hope, growth, strength, and increased happiness are possible. Taking the first step toward healing and continuing to persevere through adversity requires courage, and you don't have to do it alone. I believe human beings are innately driven toward happiness and health, but difficult experiences, unmet needs, and self-defeating beliefs can get in the way of this. I want to hear your story and he...
I am a licensed clinical social worker in the State of North Carolina with a number of years experience working in mental health in a variety of settings. I spent approximately 10 years of my career working with at risk youth involved in the foster care system. I have also spent time as an intensive in-home team lead, case manager for adults with serious mental illness, and as a behavioral...
Are you looking for relief from life’s daily stressors? How about a change from your current situation? There's no better time than now to start your new beginning. Let me assist you in your new journey. My therapeutic style is Integrated which entails blending and tailoring different but complimentary theories to best serve your unique and individual needs. Genuineness, Empathetic Understandin...
Rana Ryan provide families with key tools to make gains in every aspect of life. Be it personal or professional, I help others find a path that leads to happiness, success, and a fruitful life. I am committed to the helping field because that is what I was called to do. For more than a decade I have facilitated change and helped people from across the nation reshape their lives and turn their...
If you feel like you're lacking purpose, desire healthier relationships, want a great relationship with food, or lack positive coping for success in life, then you're in the right place. You might write yourself off as lazy or beat yourself up for not having it all together. What I've come to find is that people like you DO have it together, but seeing that you're enough includes chipping away ...
Majority of my clients often feel they are held responsible for what is outside their control. Sometimes, clients are under a dark cloud of expectations to be met, but have no way to succeed. Clients become hard workers at trying to making others fulfilled at the expense of their own happiness. My goal is to help clients learn that it is perfectly acceptable to not have the approval and...
The pandemic has heightened clinician challenges TOO! Navigating teletherapy for the first time. Blurred lines between work and home life. Worried about the future. Having more difficult conversations with clients. Compassion fatigue is rising. Sense of personal and professional accomplishment is going down. Looking for a way to settle into the new normal and restore a sense of purpose? Please...
