For Referring Healthcare Practitioners

With Quick Counseling + Coaching, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Dan Lippmann, LCSW, and Author & Certified Life Coach, Sylvia Lippmann, MEd, MA, CLC, offer life-changing complementary care for chronic illness patients whose "co-challenges" -- both emotional & lifestyle -- so frequently complicate their medical condition.

IconHow does Quick Counseling + Coaching complement a healthcare practitioner's treatment for CI?

Here is just one example (though many more can be found throughout this site):

One practitioner-referral client was a fifty-five-year-old woman who had suffered a mild heart attack.

Candice had a family history of heart disease, was fifty pounds overweight, and rarely exercised. Her two children were in college, and her managerial position was a sedentary desk job.

Her cardiologist referred Candice for Quick Counseling because she was anxious (feared another heart attack), and depressed (thought her life would never return to "normal"). And she could not stick to her physician-prescribed diet and exercise program.

Therapist Dan Lippmann taught Candice several Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to counteract the repetitious negative thoughts that were responsible for her anxiety and depression.

In just a few sessions, Candice was able to begin thinking realistically and optimistically about her life and her medical condition.

Next, Dan focused on diet and exercise, introducing Candice to the research-based Beck Diet Solution, which teaches specific skills for sticking with any nutritious diet.

Using the Beck tools, Candice transformed her negative thoughts about food and eating, and started to lose weight.

Feeling a need for ongoing motivational support, Candice then opted for Quick Coaching with CI Coach, Sylvia Lippmann.

In less than four weeks, Candice learned to create a daily food plan, reduce cravings, and avoid unplanned eating. She also reorganized her schedule to include exercise and other forms of self-care.

After three months of Quick Coaching, Candice had lost thirteen pounds, felt better than she had in years, and was newly optimistic about her future.


As the above Quick Counseling + Coaching story about one referral client illustrates, it can be just as important to address the emotional and lifestyle co-challenges that a patient with chronic illness faces . . . as it is to manage her condition medically.

But why does Quick Counseling + Coaching offer such effective complementary care for the significant secondary concerns of chronic illness patients?

There are several reasons.

First, Quick Counseling -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- has been subjected to over four hundred rigorous scientific studies since it was initially developed in the 1960s, and it is one of the few forms of psychotherapy that has been refined as a result of research.

Studies have proved the efficacy of CBT for a wide range of psychological disorders, including: Depression, generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, panic disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

CBT has also been shown to reduce the symptoms of such conditions as: chronic pain, insomnia, back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. (For one analysis of this ongoing research, see Clinical Psychology Review, January, 2006.)

Second, unlike "talk" therapy, CBT does not take years to produce results. In fact, results are typically apparent in just weeks (hence the name, Quick Counseling; fast results are especially important to people with chronic conditions, since many of these are painful).

Third, Therapist Dan Lippmann knows what living with CI is like: He was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in his thirties. Dan understands the emotional and work-family-social issues that those with CI struggle with on a daily basis. This level of empathy is palpable when Dan counsels referred CI clients.

Fourth, by combining CBT counseling with the strategies, tools, and ongoing support of CI life coaching, Dan and Sylvia Lippmann's practice -- Quick Counseling + Coaching -- can address every area of a client's life that has been negatively impacted by chronic illness. As in the case of client Candice above, CI life coaching offers effective strategies and support, aimed at transforming life obstacles which may seem nearly hopeless -- to a person whose energy and lifestyle have been constrained by chronic illness.

Clients learn how to change habits, meet goals, and take small, consistent steps toward a new, self-designed life, one that holds individual purpose and meaning.

And -- like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- Quick Coaching works within a relatively short period of time.

Transforming a life fraught with anxiety and despair, into one filled with joy and fulfillment, often occurs in a matter of months (again, "talk" therapy, by contrast, typically takes years).

Fifth, CI Coach, Sylvia Lippmann, is the author of Don't Let Chronic Illness Stand in Your Way: The Coach Approach to Reaching Your Full Potential.

This groundbreaking book is one of the first to use the strategies and tools of life coaching to address the often debilitating lifestyle issues that those with chronic illness face.


Because over 90 million Americans live with one or more of over a dozen common chronic illnesses . . .
Arthritis, Asthma, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, Colitis, Crohn's Disease, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Heart Disease, Irritable Bowel Sydrome, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis
. . . the medical care costs for CI account for seventy-five percent of the $1.4 trillion our nation spends on medical care each year.

Even more astounding is this figure: Over seventy percent of all deaths in the United States, according to the CDC, are caused by chronic diseases.

But beyond the astronomical costs and high mortality rates, there is another cost that needs consideration: The human cost of CI.

When lives are debilitated by chronic pain . . .and despair begins to cloud the emotional lives of those with CI . . . there is a marked diminishment in the quality of life.

One of the best ways to treat this human cost is through the combined practical strategies available through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Life Coaching.

Dan and Sylvia Lippmann have worked with people who live with chronic illnesses of all kinds, and have created near-miraculous changes in mood and outlook, resulting in a renewed enthusiasm for living.

To learn more about the complementary care benefits of using Quick Counseling + Coaching with your CI patients . . .

Please contact Dan and/or Sylvia Lippman:
Dan@FeelBetterNow-CI.com
Sylvia@FeelBetterNow-CI.com
1-800-215-9259

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