About Quick Counseling + Coaching
Our individually designed solution plans combine two, practice-tested methods:
Quick Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Counseling + Certified Life Coaching.
Together, Quick Counseling + Coaching address and heal the emotional distress and lifestyle co-challenges of chronic illness.
. . . For this distress and accompanying co-challenges so often create barriers to well-being and happiness, in the lives of people with CI.
Would you like to know more about Quick Counseling + Coaching?
Let's look at Quick Counseling first.
Quick Counseling, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, can work "miracles" in a very short time. How? By focusing on practical results.
It isn't about processing the past. It's about finding life-changing solutions in the present.
Since the 1960s, when CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) was first developed, it has been tested rigorously, many hundreds of times.
This research has revealed that CBT works extremely well, because it is based on one breakthrough finding:
- Thoughts "cause" feelings.
- Thoughts and feelings together "cause" behaviors
For example, our client Lesley grew very depressed when her thoughts kept telling her that, without her job, she was "worthless."
Once Lesley learned to create realistic and helpful thoughts, instead ("My worth is intrinsic, having nothing to do with my job"), and to support those thoughts with productive behaviors, her depression disappeared.
But Quick Counseling isn't limited to emotional distress and the self-defeating behavior it can cause. Research has revealed that CBT also reduces the symptoms of many physical conditions -- chronic pain, insomnia, back pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome, among others.
How does Quick Counseling do this?
Symptoms worsen when the feelings surrounding them are negative -- such as anxiety, or depression, or fear. Symptoms also worsen when the thoughts surrounding them are negative -- "I'll never feel better. This is terrible."
But, when those feelings and thoughts are transformed with CBT, the symptoms are often reduced.
Another reason Quick Counseling works so well and so fast, is because our clients practice new thoughts and behaviors between sessions.
. . . And when they see the amazing changes that result, they feel motivated to think the thoughts and do the things that will continue to create those positive changes.
But Feel Better Now-CI offers more than Quick Counseling, as good as that is.
We offer Quick Coaching, as well.
Why? Because our clients often need solutions in other life areas -- apart from solutions for the emotional challenges of CI.
Quick Coaching provides the action-oriented tools, the personal support, and the practical guidance that our clients need . . . to change habits, meet goals, and move toward a new life -- one filled with individual meaning and purpose.
Quick Coaching helps our clients design a life that is far more satisfying than they previously thought possible.
With Quick Coaching, for instance, Lesley and Meg moved in new career directions, while Joyce and Chris met challenges in their health and work lives with new confidence.
We'd like you to find real solutions for the challenges you face each day . . . just as Lesley, Meg, Joyce, and Chris did.
We'd like you to become part of our Feel Better Now-CI community.
The first step is signing up for our FREE eZine and getting this FREE eReport: "The Feel Better Now-CI Five-Second Stress Reduction Technique."
The second step is signing up for our FREE Blog feed.
And don't forget to join the conversation -- by posting on our blog!
The next step is to choose one or more of three other ways we can help you find solutions:
ONE:
Our Quick Coaching Life Coach, Sylvia Lippmann, MEd, MA, CLC, has a NEW BOOK!
In Don't Let Chronic Illness Stand in Your Way: The Coach Approach to Reaching Your Full Potential, Coach Sylvia leads you, step by step, through the same life-changing system that she uses with individual clients. . . . Reading even a single chapter makes most people feel better on the spot!
Find out more about Sylvia Lippmann's new book.
TWO:
Our Quick Counseling therapist, Dan Lippmann, LCSW, and our Quick Coaching Coach, Sylvia Lippmann, MEd, MA, CLC, offer Feel Better Now-CI Teleseminars.
Each telephone seminar with Dan & Sylvia provides the combined Quick Counseling + Coaching approach to challenges that everyone with CI faces.
Find out more about Feel Better Now-CI Teleseminars.
THREE:
Therapist Dan Lippmann and Coach Sylvia Lippmann also offer individual sessions by phone (and in person) for Quick Counseling + Coaching.
Find out more about Quick Counseling + Coaching Individual Sessions.
You may wonder why Therapist Dan and Coach Sylvia know so much about helping people with CI to find real solutions for their symptoms and their lifestyle co-challenges.
Like many in this field, they have a personal connection.
Dan's osteoarthritis first appeared in his mid-thirties. And as he struggled with painful symptoms and worries about fulfilling all his responsibilities -- Sylvia, who had moved away from her career in Education and Special Education, to become a Certified Life Coach -- was able to coach Dan through.
With Sylvia's expert help, Dan taught himself to focus not on his losses, but on workable solutions for them, instead.
In time, Dan created a satisfying and well-balanced life, one that takes his CI into account, but is never defined by it.
Meanwhile, Dan's practice as a therapist began to include more and more people with CI.
As Dan worked with his CI clients, he realized that they, too, would benefit from coaching -- for life areas that counseling did not address. So Dan increasingly referred his CI clients to Sylvia.
After several years, Sylvia began to see that a book offering coaching tools and insights, and written just for people with chronic illness, would be very helpful for her clients -- and for so many others with CI.
Working diligently for two years, Sylvia wrote her book -- Don't Let Chronic Illness Stand in Your Way: The Coach Approach to Reaching Your Full Potential.
While Sylvia's book was being published, Dan and Sylvia realized that the next step in their joint counseling + coaching career would be reaching out to more and more people -- through teleseminars.
The potential of this medium for helping thousands with the tools and techniques that they've used for years was very clear.
Now you can benefit from Dan and Sylvia's uniquely successful method, too -- a method that will help you alleviate symptoms and find solutions for all your lifestyle co-challenges.
These solutions, in turn, will help you create a new life -- one filled with meaning and purpose, joy and fulfillment.
