Christopher Mulligan LCSW
Bipolar Recovery Coaching
Breaking the Cycle, Reclaiming Life
The bipolar recovery journey involves learning the behavioral skills needed to live a full, healthy, stable, and meaningful life. Coaching is a hands on process that supports managing the daily challenges of living with bipolar disorder. My coaching services provide the skills training needed to support teens and adults living with bipolar disorder achieve and sustain recovery while offering support and education to family, friends, and caregivers in the process.
Goals of Recovery Coaching:
Understanding and accepting the bipolar diagnosis
Moving past shame and stigma
Fostering and sustaining hope
Developing and practicing self-regulation skills
Achieving and maintaining physical and psychological wellness
Developing mindfulness skills
Developing healthy sleep and exercise patterns
Building and managing relationships
Creating a support system
Medication compliance
Coping with relapse and hospitalizations
Transitioning back to work and or/school
Services Available:
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Coaching involves teaching the behavioral skills necessary for successfully managing the daily challenges of living with Bipolar Disorder. These challenges include accepting the diagnosis, medication compliance, sobriety, building healthy sleep and eating habits, coping with boredom and stress, managing strong emotions, building a support system, developing mindfulness skills, and orienting behavior towards personal values. Coaching is a hands on process during which clients learn to embrace their diagnosis and develop strategies and techniques needed to live a full and meaningful life.
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Family education and support is a critical feature of helping clients with bipolar disorder thrive. Coaching helps family members learn the most effective ways to support their loved ones manage the challenges of successfully living with bipolar disorder.
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Christopher Mulligan offers short-term and long-term family therapy. Family therapy focuses on improving communication skills and boundaries while working through family dynamics and trauma related to living with a bipolar relative.
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Bipolar support groups are invaluable part of the recovery process. Support groups provide a sense community and allow for education and feedback. Support groups also provide the opportunity to break down self isolation patterns and reduce shame and stigma.
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Christopher Mulligan offers in-person and remote coaching services. In-person coaching are provided across the Los Angeles area.
About Us
Christopher Mulligan LCSW has been working with children, teens, and adults with Bipolar Disorder for the past thirty years in a variety of clinical settings, including residential and outpatient. Christopher has focused on providing coaching services for the past ten years in his private practice. Bipolar coaching involves teaching the behavioral skills that are needed to effectively manage the daily challenges of living with a mood disorder. Christopher provides individual and family coaching, family therapy, and support and psychoeducation groups for teens and adults. Christopher attended Sarah Lawrence College, where he received his BA in psychology and philosophy in 1984. Christopher went on to study philosophy of science at The New School for Social Research from 1985 to 1987. Christopher proceeded to earn his MSW from USC in 1992 and wrote his thesis on childhood mood disorders. Christopher is also the Clinical Director of the OCD and Anxiety Clinic at Psychological Care and Healing Treatment Center located in West Los Angeles.