Evidence-Based Therapy & Mental Health Services in New Jersey

The faces behind The Coffee Cohort. Our brand new social skills group aimed to help adults struggling with social anxiety build genuine connections.

Learn more about our incredible therapist, @heidi_sommers and @juliafarrell_
Their therapeutic orientations and how they help the community seeking evidence based mental health care in New Jersey.

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Social anxiety in adults is rising every year. Research indicates this could be roughly 15 million individuals in the US, and that is just the people who filled out the survey.

In a world that is more distant and avoidant of in person connection, adults have started to find themselves to be more anxious in social settings. Our inner voice gets to critical, we overthink every interaction, we doubt ourselves when it comes to making an approach and befriend others.

This is a problem that we as therapists have seen so often in our clients. This is why we started The Coffee Cohort. A co-ed social skills group based out of our Hoboken location. Our goal is simple, help you feel more capable and confident in social situations that typically make you anxious.

With a small group of peers, and us, your therapists and group leaders. We will spend every Friday for 8 weeks, building, practicing and assigning weekly tasks to help you get yourself out there as your most authentic self.

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Setting goal is a cheat code, but only if you do it right. One wrong plan and you will lose motivation before you know it. Often times when we set goals its easy to focus only on just outcome. Driven purely by what we can get out of our efforts, our focus shifts away from the process.
Forgetting to take into account the hurdles we’ll be met with along the way and the factors out of our control. This ultimately leads to a failure in reaching our goals. If you’re not ready to see this failure as an opportunity to improve than you are set up to repeat this same goal setting mistake over and over.
So what can you do in order to set goals that you can actually achieve, that takes into account factors other than just the process? That’s where WOOP goals come in.
W- wish. What is the best possible scenario you are wishing for.
(To make the team)
O- outcome. What are specific and realistic outcomes that are attached to your wish.
(Increase my broad jump by 2 inches and my 3 cone drill should be faster by 2 seconds)
O- obstacles. What will get in the way of you reaching the outcome and your wish.
(Knee pain flare up from injury last year and self comparison)
P- plan. What will you do when you are faced with your obstacles.
(I will rehab my knee leading up to the combine and have a set of drills dedicated to it for warmups. When i notice myself compare, ill say 3 reasons why I deserve to be here)

Goal setting is more than just saying the outcome you want. It’s also about giving yourself the best chance to succeed. That only happens when you factor in more than just the preferred outcome. Use WOOP goals.

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Overcoming the hurdles is the success, not the win. That small mindset shift can ironically lead to you winning more. Focus on the process and the growth and less on the outcome. ...