Embracing Resilience: Coping Skills for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Apr 23

This month's Community Support Series will be led by AGP therapist, Kara Lissy. Kara will cover the struggles of growing up in an alcoholic home and how to heal as an adult. She will discuss learned common behaviors people tend to develop from growing up in an alcoholic home, coping skills, exercises and community resources that can help develop resilience.

Kara has been a psychotherapist at A Good Place Therapy for 4 years and also serves as the clinical director. As she began her work in private practice treating anxiety, depression and relationship stress, Kara quickly realized her niche: she particularly connected with adult children from alcoholic, substance-abusing or otherwise dysfunctional homes (Or ACOAs for short). ACOAs often come to therapy for a unique type of anxiety which often involves perfectionism, people-pleasing, poor boundaries, difficulty with intimacy, and unresolved feelings of shame. Kara's work as a therapist and her passion for writing led her on a journey to write a workbook specifically designed for adult children of alcoholics, which is set to publish in March on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart and other locations. She will also be selling the book independently from her website and hopes to partner with some local bookstores in NYC.