Just About Coping

At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions.In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and self-harming, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.Funny, poignant and full of ‘aha’ moments, Just About Coping is a journey into our inner worlds, where the drama of our break-ups, breakdowns and breakthroughs takes place. In times of stress and suffering, Dr Natalie reveals, we are all just about coping. None of us is immune – not even your therapist.

Dr Natalie Cawley is a qualified Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist with a PhD in self-harm. She has worked in the public and private sectors, including nine years with the NHS across trusts and populations, and with both adults and children, covering a wide range of health conditions and clinical presentations in the community and within psychiatric hospitals. Her hobbies include stand-up comedy – mostly watching, although she has performed a set about bad dates that went better than expected. Just About Coping is her first book.

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