Coping Skills Coaching in Bethesda and around Maryland
Simply Skillful Therapy is built on the idea that implementing new skills into our lives is essential for managing the ups an downs of today’s world. I offer a practical, supportive coaching program that helps you build real life coping skills - without the time and exploration expected in therapy.
Skills areas could include but are not limited to mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, executive functioning, burn out prevention, and cognitive restructuring.
What it is
A personalized, 14 week program that teaches practical tools to handle everyday challenges. You will particiate in an assessment for skills deficits, learn and practice strategies in session, and complete weekly homework.
What it is not
This is not therapy, counseling, or a medical service. There is no diagnosis, no processing of your past or current experiences, and no clinical exploration - just real strategies to help you function and feel better day to day.
Who it’s for
People who want real coping tools and aren’t ready for therapy, prefer a no pressure skills based approach, or are in talk therapy and are looking to supplement the support they are receiving.
Questions?
FAQs
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Therapy involves ongoing exploration of thoughts, analyzing behaviors, and focuses on emotional experiencing. While skills taught in the coaching program do target thoughts, emotions and behaviors, we will not dive into your individual experiences on a weekly basis. Skills coaching is individualized in that I hand select skills to meet your identified goals, and they are taught with a generalized approach to decrease the need for intensive processing.
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During our first two sessions, I will ask some questions related to your life that will require a level of vulnerability. This will allow me to identify the skills that will be most impactful toward reaching your goals. Beyond that, our sessions will focus on teaching you new skills, reviewing how you were skillful in the last week, and troubleshoot how to use skills in between sessions.
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Because this service is not clinical or medical, it is not submissible to insurance for reimbursement. The cost for each skills coaching session is $225.
