Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
Understanding our relationship with stress is one of the keys to developing preferred narratives in our lives. Getting to know how it influences you and those around you. Exploring what tricks and tools you have in standing up to stress a way to develop an alternative path.
Stress doesn’t have to take control over your life. Let me help you identify the different types of stress and collaborate with each other to discover new skills that will equip you to cope better.
Registered Psychotherapist, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology 1994
When stress goes unnoticed or pushed down in our psyche; it tends to become more intense. It requires that we be conscious of and face what is happening. That in itself can change it. Two resources for this is Elissa Epel; The Stress Prescription.
Stress isn't all bad! There are good/adaptive types of stress and there is toxic stress. I help clients decipher which types of stress is helpful for them, which types are potentially dangerous, and we work together to unearth their goals and then obtain them.