Coping strategies that are actually built for you
Get On By's coping strategy training is a bespoke, in-person service. You work with a trained job coach to develop real, personalised strategies for the symptoms you actually live with — not a generic leaflet, not a workbook. Everything you build is added to your Get On By library and becomes known by every coach who supports you.
Who it's for
Designed for people whose conditions make coping genuinely hard
Coping strategy training is for adults living with conditions that affect how they regulate, process, or respond to the demands of daily life — especially when standard approaches haven't worked, or when a complex or mixed presentation means nothing quite fits. You don't need a formal diagnosis to enquire.
Complex mental health conditions
Including anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, OCD, emotionally unstable personality disorder, psychosis, and others — particularly where symptoms are variable, layered, or haven't responded well to standard support.
Neurodivergent profiles
Including ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, and Tourette syndrome — where differences in emotional regulation, sensory processing, executive function, or social experience create coping challenges that generic strategies rarely account for.
Learning disabilities and complex mixed presentations
Including mild to moderate learning disabilities, and people whose profile is a complex mix of two or more conditions — where bespoke development is not a luxury but a necessity.
Not off the shelf
Bespoke means built from your experience, not a template
Most people living with complex or neurodivergent conditions have already been handed generic coping strategies that don't hold up in real life. This is different. Your strategies are developed through honest conversation, real-world trial, and careful refinement — until something genuinely useful exists that belongs to you.
We learn your symptoms and triggers
Your coach takes time to understand the specific symptoms, environments, and situations that are hardest for you — before suggesting a single strategy.
We explore and trial approaches together
Drawing on evidence-informed techniques, we adapt and test strategies in the actual contexts where you need them — in practice, not in theory.
We refine until it genuinely works
A strategy that helps on a green day may not hold on a red one. We keep testing and adjusting until you have something reliable across different states and situations.
Your strategies go into Get On By
Each strategy is written up in your own language and added to your personal coping strategies library in the software — and every coach who supports you become familiar with them.
What we address
Strategies for what actually makes daily life harder
Coping strategy training is built around the symptoms you bring, not a predetermined list. Common areas we develop strategies for include:
Emotional dysregulation and overwhelm
Managing intense emotions, avoiding emotional shutdown, and finding ways to come back to a regulated state when things escalate — especially in workplace or social contexts.
Executive dysfunction
Difficulty starting tasks, switching between them, managing time, holding things in working memory, or sustaining attention — and the shame and frustration that often comes with it.
Anxiety and avoidance
Strategies for managing anxiety responses before and during tasks — reducing avoidance without pushing through in ways that make things worse over time.
Fatigue and energy management
Pacing strategies for conditions where energy is genuinely limited or unpredictable — including depression, chronic conditions, ADHD burnout, and autistic fatigue.
Sensory overload and processing differences
Strategies for managing sensory environments, recovering from overload, and building routines that reduce unnecessary sensory demand — particularly relevant for autistic clients and those with sensory processing differences.
Social and communication challenges
Navigating workplace relationships, communicating needs, managing misunderstandings, and recovering from social situations that feel disproportionately draining or difficult.
Low mood and loss of motivation
Strategies that work when motivation isn't available — building momentum without relying on feeling ready first, and maintaining function during low periods.
Trauma responses and hypervigilance
Grounding, de-escalation, and self-regulation approaches for people whose nervous systems are responding to past experiences — adapted to what you can safely do in daily contexts.
Your own specific challenges
Whatever symptoms or situations your condition creates that aren't captured above — training is shaped around your experience, not a predetermined list of what we think you'll need.
Consistent support
Every coach who supports you knows your strategies
One of the most frustrating experiences in support services is having to start over every time — explaining yourself again, having someone suggest something that definitely doesn't work for you. Get On By is built to prevent that.
Your strategies are recorded precisely
Not just the name of a technique — the specific version of it that works for you, in your words, with the context that matters.
Every Get On By coach is trained on them
When a job coach supports you — whether in a session, during a check-in, or when you've checked in at red — they already know what's in your toolkit and how to help you use it.
Support stays consistent over time
As your strategies develop and change, your profile is updated. You're never explaining yourself from scratch — the knowledge carries forward.
Always within reach
Your strategies live in Get On By — available any time you need them
The strategies you develop don't sit in a folder you have to remember to open. They're built into your Get On By software — available when you need them, matched to how you're feeling, and there at 2am as much as during a session.
Green moments and days
Your full strategies library is available to browse and use. A good time to revisit what's working and build on it — and to remind yourself what's there for harder days.
Amber moments and days
Similar to green days, your strategies are available to use when you need them.
Red moments and days
When a job coach reaches out to you, they're already looking at your strategies. They know which ones help, how to prompt you to use them, and what to avoid.
Important to know
Coping strategy training is not therapy or clinical treatment
Our job coaches are trained to develop and support practical coping strategies with you — but they are not therapists, psychologists, or clinical practitioners. This service is skill-building, not treatment. It works best alongside any clinical or therapeutic support you already have, not as a replacement for it.
If you are in crisis, please contact your GP, a mental health crisis line, or emergency services. Get On By is not an emergency or crisis service.
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Find out if coping strategy training is right for you
We talk to every person before they start. Tell us about your situation and we'll be in touch within one working day — no obligation, no hard sell.