For referring physicians & specialists
Skills-based coaching alongside your care. Never instead of it.
A 90-second read on what this practice does, what it explicitly does not do, and how a referral works — so you can decide whether it fits the people in your care.
Who you'd be referring to
A clinically trained coach who keeps the line bright.
Rose’s path to coaching runs through more than a decade of clinical training and practice. She completed her graduate training at Santa Clara University and spent years inside Dr. David Burns’ TEAM-CBT group at Stanford — training in the structured, measurement-driven framework alongside the group that developed it — working throughout with anxiety, mood, and life transitions.
Today she brings that depth to coaching: evidence-based cognitive and behavioral methods, taught as practical skills you keep. Coaching is not psychotherapy or medical care, and Rose holds that line carefully. If what you’re facing calls for therapy or medical support, she’ll tell you directly and help you find the right care.
Rose’s background includes clinical training as a US-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. The coaching offered here is non-clinical — it is not therapy, and she does not provide therapy through this practice. Coaching is offered only to people located outside the five US states (California, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont) where her separate licensed therapy practice operates.
If the person you have in mind is in one of those five states, her therapy practice at getbetterthoughts.com is the right fit, not this one.
Coaching is not psychotherapy, counseling, or medical care. Full scope statement →
10+ years
Clinical training & practice
Santa Clara University
Graduate training
TEAM-CBT
Years in Dr. Burns’ Stanford group
Graduate training — Santa Clara UniversityTEAM-CBT — years in Dr. Burns’ Stanford groupWhat this is
Coaching, precisely scoped.
Rose Markotic works as a non-clinical anxiety skills coach. Sessions are structured skills education: emotion regulation, sleep-adjacent habits and protocols, communication and boundary work, identity work through transitions, and anxiety tools — built, rehearsed, and tracked over a fixed package of sessions.
The work offered here is deliberately not clinical: no diagnosis, no treatment, no medical advice of any kind. For women navigating perimenopause and menopause specifically — a core specialty — she offers no opinions on hormones or medication. Those decisions stay entirely with you and the person in your care.
The line is kept bright on purpose. It is what makes this service safe to refer into.
When a referral fits
Who tends to benefit.
- —Perimenopause / menopause mood and identity load. Your medical management is in place; what’s missing is the skills side — mood volatility, sleep habits, the identity and confidence shift, communication at home. This is the practice’s dedicated Women’s Midlife & Wellness specialty, where Rose brings both professional training and lived experience.
- —Worry and stress patterns interfering with daily life — health-anxiety loops, rumination, the stress load that keeps presenting somatically — where structured skills work is an appropriate adjunct to your care.
- —Adjustment stress — relocation, major life transitions, family upheaval — in people who are fundamentally functioning but depleted by the load.
As prominent as the pitch
When not to refer.
Coaching is not appropriate for anyone at acute risk, in active crisis, or presenting with a condition that needs diagnosis, medication management, or licensed psychological care. Those situations belong with licensed professionals — and if someone arrives here needing that, Rose says so directly and redirects them. The site’s crisis resources page lists Croatian and international lines.
Coaching is also not couples or family work, and it is not a lower-cost substitute for care someone actually needs. If your instinct says this person needs licensed care, refer to licensed care — not here.
How a referral works
No paperwork. No shared records.
Hand the patient the referral card. It carries a short link and QR code to a page written for them — nothing for you to fill in, no account to set up.
They book a free 20-minute Discovery Call themselves — no card details, no commitment. If coaching isn’t the right tool, Rose says so on that call and points them somewhere better.
Nothing comes back to you. No forms and no shared records in either direction — what the patient discusses stays with them unless they choose to tell you.
The page your patients land on
“Anxiety coaching in Croatia” — written for them, with the €90 local rate and the free call.
Fees are private-pay and stated up front: patients based in Croatia pay a €90 local rate per session, and standard packages run €720–€1,800 — so no one you send is surprised.
Questions before referring, or want printed cards and the one-page summary for your practice? Write to Rose directly at hello@rosemarkotic.com — she responds within 24–48 business hours.
From Rose
“I keep the boundary between coaching and clinical care bright because I’ve worked on the clinical side, and I respect what it’s for. If you’re weighing a referral, I’d rather you email or call me first — I take those conversations myself, before any patient’s name changes hands.”
— Rose Markotic