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It's one thing to be told "what to do", it's another thing to feel confident you can do it. I'm here to bridge the gap.

Effective Coping Skills

Our inner world goes into disarray when our emotions are heightened. Distress tolerance skills help us tame the chaos.

Lasting Change

The goal is to help you make long term and sustainable changes, so your intense emotions don't continue to be in control.

About the Course

You've heard of a pros and cons list before, but this is different. This training will help you explore and understand your personal pros and cons associated with coping in a new, different, and unfamiliar (but potentially more effective) way. If it's hard to believe there could be "pros" to the old way of coping (the way that you're hoping to change), then understanding "secondary gains" will be an essential step towards changing how you interface with yourself, your problems, and your emotions. The material specific to this skill is just over 30 minutes, and you should leave the course with increased clarity on how secondary gains may be interfering with your ability to change, what your personal barriers are to making changes, and concrete homework to get you on your way.

About the Creator: Kate

Hi, I'm Kate, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with a private counseling practice in Chicago. I've been providing therapy and teaching these skills for years, and have seen them change hundreds of lives. We therapists get all kinds of training in graduate school to help us help our clients, and I'm convinced clients do better if they too know what we know. I pull back the curtain for you to help you better understand how change happens, and to help you develop an improved relationship with your inner world. It doesn't have to be so hard.

Course Curriculum

6 Chapters · 28 Lessons

  1. 1

    Orientation to Skills Training

    1. Introduction to Kate Free preview
    2. Deeper dive into Kate and skills training Free preview
    3. Structure of the course Free preview
    4. Recommended Materials and Course Content Free preview
    5. Skills defined, Assumptions, and Expectations Free preview
    6. The Biosocial Theory of Emotions Free preview
    7. Barriers to Skill Training Free preview
    8. Homework for Orientation Free preview
    9. Final Thought Free preview
  2. 2

    Change

    1. Process of Change Free preview
    2. Stages of Change Free preview
    3. Homework Free preview
  3. 3

    Window of Tolerance

    1. Introducing the Window of Tolerance Free preview
    2. A deeper dive into the Window of Tolerance Free preview
    3. Practical applications of the Window of Tolerance Free preview
    4. Dissociation and the Window of Tolerance Free preview
    5. Final Thoughts Free preview
    6. Homework for the Window of Tolerance Free preview
  4. 4

    Grounding

    1. Introduction to grounding Free preview
    2. How to Ground Free preview
    3. Grounding 2.0 Free preview
    4. Grounding Homework Free preview
  5. 5

    Introduction to Distress Tolerance Skills

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Understanding Distress Tolerance Skills

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Deeper Dive into Distress Tolerance Skills

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Homework for Introduction to Distress Tolerance Skills

  6. 6

    Pros and Cons skill

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Pros and Cons

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Secondary Gains

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Homework for Pros, Cons, and Secondary Gains

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