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Therapy for Stress Management
Your life is not the mess you think it is.
Do any of these thoughts sound familiar to you?
“I just want to be happy”
“I just want to be comfortable with myself”
“I just want to love myself”
“I just want to get out of my own way”
Life has to be easier than this, right!
All these things we “just want” that seem so unattainable. Sounds like a simple, reasonable request yet seems so far away from us.
Over-thinking, judgment, and feeling misunderstood: do any of these sound familiar? These are a few of the many ways we feel our own lives hold us captive. Add on top of that a short temper, bad memory, and hard time concentrating and we’re really having a good time with life.
You wind up feeling like a loser. Like the cool kids in school who know all the secrets but no one filled you in.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Why does it seem like other people can manage life pretty smoothly but your life feels out of control, chaotic, and borderline impossible to manage. It seems impossible to apply structure or routine to your day. You become overwhelmed at seemingly simple tasks and wind up doing nothing. Even if you could, you don’t feel like you have the tools to accomplish what you want.
What if you did have the tools?
WHAT WILL THERAPY FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT LOOK LIKE?
Therapy for stress management can help you become more patient, improve focus, slow down, and live a more fulfilling life with less judgment of self and others. We do this through looking at yourself as a whole, complete person instead of trying to micromanage one issue and treat it at its surface. This type of tactic may get you an immediate result but won’t last.
I get it though: most people, especially those who are stressed out, just want to feel better and they want to feel better now. In our sessions, my goal is to help you create lasting change so you don’t have to feel eternally frustrated that your tactics aren’t working. And isn’t that the point of why you’re here?
Together, we’ll look at all aspects of your life including work, relationships, finances, societal culture, your health and more. There are direct and indirect ways stress affects us meaning things we know stress us out and other things that are more subtle. It’s important to understand the impacts of stress on the body since your body cannot tell the difference between good stress (eustress) and bad stress (distress).
Sound overwhelming? Getting stressed out just thinking about it? Take this moment right now just for yourself to sit back, drop your shoulders, close your eyes, and take 3 deep breaths focusing on a longer exhale than inhale….
*whew* ok, nice job. Let’s move on.
Therapy for stress management can help you:
Identify your needs & respond to them
Learn about & implement boundaries
Improve communication
Create daily self-care
Identify stressors & triggers
Improve your mood by decreasing unhelpful judgments
Learn to be more in the present moment