Just About Coping is a memoir about training to be a psychotherapist, featuring patients grappling with mental health issues and Dr. Natalie Cawley helping them understand and change their attempts to self-soothe. It is full of lightbulb moments and reveals that we are all just about coping in times of stress and suffering.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Just About Coping

I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy – Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path

Profound and piercing recollections – The Sunday Times

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 honest, often poignant and frequently funny memoir about training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues. From OCD and addiction to self-deception and toxic relationships, Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.

Full of lightbulb 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.

Weight: 444g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035011803