Coping Skills

Strengthen Your Resilience: Coping Skills Counseling

Life can throw curveballs—learn practical coping skills and build emotional resilience with supportive, empowering counseling guidance.

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Coping Skills Counseling in Colorado

Feeling overwhelmed with no healthy outlet. Reaching for the same unhelpful patterns because you don't know what else to do. Wanting better tools to handle whatever life throws at you. You shouldn't have to figure this out alone. Overcomers Counseling offers coping skills-focused counseling across Colorado Springs, Aurora, Fort Collins, and Pueblo, plus statewide teletherapy.

You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone

Everyone develops coping strategies, but not all of them serve you well long-term. Building healthier coping skills takes practice and guidance, not just willpower. Our therapists help you replace patterns that aren't working with tools that actually support your wellbeing.

What Counseling Can Support

Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful coping patterns, building healthy stress management tools, developing emotional regulation skills, practicing mindfulness and grounding techniques, and creating a personalized coping toolkit for difficult moments. This work applies across anxiety, stress, grief, and everyday life challenges.

How Our Therapists Help

Our providers use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and skills-based approaches to help you build a practical, personalized toolkit you can rely on in real moments of stress. For clients who want it, we also offer faith-integrated counseling grounded in resilience and hope.

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Find coping skills counseling in Colorado Springs, Aurora, Fort Collins, or Pueblo, or connect through secure teletherapy anywhere in Colorado. We accept Medicaid and most major insurance plans, including Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Kaiser, Anthem BCBS, and Tricare.

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FAQs about Coping Skills

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How do I know which coping strategy to use?

The choice between emotion-focused coping and solution-focused coping depends on the nature of the situation and whether it is within your control to change. If the situation is uncontrollable, emotion-focused coping may be more effective; if the situation can be changed or resolved, solution-focused coping might be more appropriate.

What are unhealthy self-soothing strategies and behaviors?

Some examples of self-soothing strategies that are not healthy include binge-watching TV, emotional eating, drinking alcohol, compulsive gambling, obsessive game-playing, and constant internet surfing.

How do Self-Soothing Techniques Work on the Body?

The techniques activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which increases tolerance to distress, decreases physical discomfort, slows impulsive behaviors, and helps redirect a person's focus to bring it back to the present.

How do Coping Behaviors Help People Emotionally?

Healthy techniques can help you feel more in control of your emotions and present situation, which can help because stress and anxiety are often caused by a person feeling like they have no control over their feelings, situation, or outcomes.

What are some ways to avoid unnecessary stress?

To avoid unnecessary stress, avoid people who cause you anxiety, and avoid sensitive topics with others. Shorten your to-do list, and learn how to say no; that is, know your limits so you don't take on more than you can handle.

How can I adapt to stressors?

You can adapt to stressors and new situations by looking at the big picture, focusing on the positive, reframing problems, and adjusting your standards when necessary. Setting reasonable standards is a surefire way to avoid unnecessary anxiety.

How can I alter a situation to cope with stress?

A very common source of stress, fear, and anxiety is when a person feels like they can do nothing to improve a situation. While some situations simply cannot be changed, others can, so in these situations, be willing to compromise, manage your time better, and express your feelings to others instead of holding them in.

What are some ways I can accept a stressful situation?

Accepting the things you cannot change is crucial, so you shouldn't try to control the uncontrollable; instead, look for the upside. Share your feelings with a therapist, friend, or family member, and learn to forgive if relevant.

How to Cope When You Are Emotionally Overwhelmed

Focus on developing healthy coping strategies, setting realistic expectations for yourself, and practicing self-care regularly.

Is it normal to feel emotionally overwhelmed from time to time?

Yes, experiencing intense emotions is a normal part of life, but it's essential to develop effective coping strategies to manage these feelings when they arise.

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Across hundreds of client reviews, one theme comes through again and again: people feel truly heard here. Clients describe finally finding a therapist who understood them, gaining real tools for anxiety, trauma, and anger management, and walking away from sessions feeling lighter and more hopeful. Many say Overcomers was the first place therapy actually felt like the right fit — a space to be met with warmth, patience, and genuine care on the path to becoming who they're meant to be.
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Kaitlyn Chiasson, LPCC, NCC
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Kaitlyn made my intake very comfortable. She was very nice and personable.
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Alondra Faudoa, LPC
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Alondra is truly amazing and I’m so grateful to have found her, she is a genuine person who listens and makes me feel heard. Her skills and knowledge have helped me greatly. I have always been apprehensive towards therapy but she has change my mind completely and I even tell others to try therapy now.
Jul 30, 2026
Catrina Chatfield, MSW, LSW, SWC
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She is very good at active listening. She demonstrated empathy and was highly motivating!
Jul 26, 2026
Rahel Girma, MA. LPCC, NCC
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Rahel has been a joy to work with so far. She's very pleasant and seems excited to help me with my mental health journey. She's very welcoming and easy to warm up. She listens intently, asks meaningful questions, gives helpful advice and affirmations, and is very responsive. She's prompt to our appointments and is very diligent in recalling and addressing things from our last session to help keep the flow and the conversation going. She's also very skilled in facilitating natural transitions in the conversation and topics. I'm very happy and grateful for her professional help!
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I can just say the confidence I have today I didn't have before I met Jennifer. She taught me amazing tools for me to be the best mother I have ever been. Trauma is a thing that takes time to heal but I have this.
Jul 24, 2026
Arias Gonzales, LPC
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I loved the flexibility of doing it virtually.