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Something like this, perhaps:

For the teens, the psychologist's advice is literally: Well, maybe don't be such a bitch in the first place, Mom.

While readable, it's roughly as unpleasant to read as not indicating that it's a rephrasing at all.

"literally"?

"Essentially" might fit better. Fitting "distilled" in there might work too.

Literally has also been used for emphasis while not being literally true, since, I'm told, at least the period Shakespeare was slinging ink around.

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