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• Understand the impact of a life transition and identify coping strategies.

• Determine if service providers are collaborating with one another, and if they are, is there a consensus reached among proposed treatment plans.

• Navigate the complex network of service providers and identify those that impact progress.

• Identify feasible, practical goals to obtain emotional, physical, and cognitive balance.

• Identify personal strengths and discover possibilities.

• Identify career paths and education/training programs or explore alternative opportunities to current choices.

• Identify barriers/obstacles to goals and recommend strategies to overcome them.

• Create an individualized plan based on personal circumstances and opportunities.

• Take necessary action steps within a plan, monitor progress ,provide feedback, and make revisions based on progress and setbacks.

• Learn stress reduction techniques to assist with emotional regulation.

• Gather and endorse support from family and friends when practical.

• Learn consequences of inaction and accountability to family/community supports, with compassion and consideration of realistic barriers.

• Understand that perceived failures are merely a natural part of learning and progress.

Educational Consultation and Planning

An individualized educational plan can be tailored to match one’s interests and aptitudes, appropriate environment, and accommodations. This process can include the following:

• Review of past educational and vocational history

• Career assessments and exploration

• Psychoeducational Evaluation (referral to consultants)

• Identifying academic strengths and weaknesses and providing resources to improve skills

• Finding appropriate colleges/training programs

• Identifying accommodations needed and process to apply

• Providing Study skills:

  • Calendar blocking

  • Note taking styles

  • gadgets and apps available for organizational skills and recording

Career Consultation and Planning

Career exploration can be conducted to identify occupational areas best suited for the individual considering the following factors:

• Past work or volunteer history

• Educational background

• Barriers to employment

• Obtaining additional necessary skills

• Can assist with:

• Resume development and editing

• Connecting with job coaching agencies

• Learning about current job fairs

• How to obtain industry driven credentials and certificates

Interventions

Psychological interventions are designed to foster healthy emotions, attitudes and habits. Individuals may have numerous health care providers, including a therapist, psychiatrist, primary care physician and nutritionist. Each provider may have a unique treatment plan to help understand and treat issues and conditions. As a routine part of the advocacy process, an‘Action Plan’ with identifiable goals and progress measures is devised. This plan incorporatestreatment recommendations from all other providers that will be reviewed for consistency. An intervention conducted by the mentor(s) may occasionally be necessary, strategies, accommodations and/or assistive technology to increase chances of success in an educational or vocational training setting. especially when an individual needs help to regain the capacity to take action that previously seemed impossible due to irrational thoughts, emotional reasoning, cognitive distortions, fear of failure and/or self -sabotaging behavior/thoughts. The intervention consists of goals for change, a step-by-step action plan, consequences of inaction, and accountability to family/community supports.

Connect to Resources:

Finding appropriate resources in the community and utilizing available and personally created data bases for:

• Therapists

• Nutritionists

• Housing

• Job coaches

• Physicians/Functional Medicine

• Mental health treatment centers

• Substance Abuse recovery and treatment centers

• IOP programs

• Therapeutic schools or boarding schools

• For individuals on the Autism Spectrum:

  • Targeted schools/programs

  • Workforce initiatives and programs

  • Organizations dedicated to help

  • Federal and State resources

Anxiety Management Techniques

Help clients understand root causes of their anxieties. Learn the role of the nervous system in processing anxiety and emotions. Find out how to calm the cortex and limbic system through mental and physical exercises.

Introduce nindfulness strategies for acute stress, general anxiety, performance, and social anxieties such as:

• Flow activity guidance

• Therapeutic art activities

• Simple and quick activities for acute stress

• Expert consultant can provide the following:

  • Breath work

  • Tapping

  • Meditation

  • Visualization

  • Yoga, Tha Chi, Yoga

  • sound healing