When fay feels anxious, she retreats to her closet with a flashlight, using the closet as a private hideaway. what coping strategy is fay using?

By hiding in the closet using is as a private hideaway when she feels anxious she is using a coping strategy called "moving away from people".

Explanation:

Coping strategies are the actions an individual would, could or that he or she performs to board a personal or interpersonal problem in an attempt to master control over his or her impulses, emotions or stress.

There are Problem-focused, emotion-focused, support-seeking, and meaning making-coping. In this case, Fay uses emotion. focused coping strategy by avoiding and distancing herself from human interaction. She protects herself from any external stimuli and mediates in solitude her anxiety with what she has found is relaxing to her.