Four days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, mental health counselors hosted a webinar on how their fellow American Muslims could cope. They surveyed the political landscape: a White House framing Islam itself as a threat, a surge in anti-Muslim hostility and suspicion of immigrants in general.

The counselors offered tips such as limiting time on social media. And they cautioned against withdrawing in discouragement, worried about losing gains Muslims have made in public life since the crucible of Sept. 11.

“It’s very easy to tell a story of victimization, fear, feeling ... not welcome in our own home,” said Ben Herzig, a Massachusetts therapist with a specialty in Muslim mental health. “But the narrative of Islam in American can be a positive one.”

While many express alarm at Trump’s statements, Muslim leaders are pushing back. They are organizing protests, hosting elected officials at their mosques, building ties with other faith groups and encouraging Muslims to run for elected office. Many of these initiatives had been planned before the general election, but have taken on a new urgency since then.

Trump signed an executive order Friday setting “new vetting measures” to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the United States. The order was expected to indefinitely stop Syrian refugee entry into the U.S. and suspend issuing visas for people from other majority-Muslim countries.

Meanwhile, a Texas state lawmaker recently sent a provocative survey to local Muslim leaders asking, among other things, their views of Islamic law and whether they would pledge not to harm Muslims who left the faith. On Wednesday, a businessman attacked a Muslim airline employee at New York’s Kennedy Airport, kicking her, shouting obscenities at her and saying that Trump “will get rid of all of you,” authorities said.

“The discourse has shifted from good Muslims and bad Muslims to ‘how bad is the Muslim you’re talking about?’” said attorney Hassan Ahmad, an immigration law specialist in Virginia with many clients from Muslim countries.

Muslim leaders acknowledge they are in a relatively weak position from which to advocate, amid the nation’s inflamed mood.

The U.S. is home to only about 3.3 million Muslims, which means just a small number of Americans actually know a member of the faith.

“We are such a small minority in the country overall, so it will really just take more than us standing up and saying, ‘This is inexcusable,’” said Kameelah Rashad, founder of the Philadelphia-based Muslim Wellness Foundation.

Surveying Trump’s first week in office, she said: “I think it will get worse before it gets better.”