Dealing with Hair Loss at a Young Age

Coaching

• Coaching services are meant to a proactive approach to getting support and guidance for achieving goals and learning new skills

• The focus of coaching is on skills, techniques, strategies and education using action oriented and solution focused approaches for specific goals (in this case, for hair loss and related goals)

• Coaching is a lower level of care than therapy (which means it is not suited for high risk concerns such as substance abuse, active eating disorders, psychosis, self harm, suicidal ideation or thoughts, intense behavioral struggles etc)

• Coaching does not include diagnosis or assessments

• My coaching services are available to anyone worldwide

Therapy

• Therapy services are meant to assess, treat and diagnose mental illness

• The focus of therapy is treating a variety mental health concerns (not always specific to one thing) and typically is longer term

• Therapy is a higher level of care than coaching

• Therapy typically includes a diagnosis, treatment planning and therapeutic treatment using a variety of evidenced based therapies and approaches

• Therapy is only offered to clients who are in the state where clinician is licensed (for me, this means I can only work with clients who are in New York)

I am not a doctor, so I can not provide or prescribe any medications for hair growth. Hair growth is often unpredictable. I often work with clients who are embarking on a treatment journey with their doctor. In our space, we will focus on managing expectations with treatment, increasing emotional coping skills, helping you make an informed decision about whether treatment options are right for you and processing the emotions you may feel while taking treatment.

A lot of things! Depending on your goals, we may work on various things including…

• Learning emotion regulation skills

• Incremental exposures to help you go out bald for the first time, start dating, or other things that hair loss has held you back from

• Experimentation with wigs, hats or other accessories

• Mirror exposure techniques to support body neutrality and acceptance

• Cognitive techniques to reduce constant hair loss thoughts

• Communication strategies and scripts to help you discuss Alopecia with people in your life

• Boundary support to implement boundaries with friends, family or others

• and more!

Acceptance is a constant practice! When you no longer try to change things outside of your control and develop a non-judgmental self-talk, it will bring you closer to acceptance. This is one of many things I support my hair loss clients with.